Chair
About 1750–60
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueMahogany, beech
DimensionsOverall: 94.6 x 59.1 x 48.9 cm (37 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Joshua Crane Sr. in memory of her husband
Accession number30.726
On View
Not on viewClassificationsFurniture
Collections
ProvenanceNOTES:
[1] A notation on the accession card for the chair indicates that the chair once belonged to William B. Phillips (1750-1827), Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts from 1812-1823. This information may have come from the donor of the chair, Mrs. Crane, as she wrote to then-director George Harold Edgell in 1936 that the chair was formerly owned by Lieutenant-Governor Phillips.
[2] The chair is marked on the seat rail and framing piece with ‘T. Hooper’. Thomas Hooper (1779-1868) is a distant relative of the donor of the chair. It is thought that the chair passed to Mrs. Crane through her aunt Sarah Emery Jose (Mrs. Samuel Thompson Hooper) (1822-1914).
[1] A notation on the accession card for the chair indicates that the chair once belonged to William B. Phillips (1750-1827), Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts from 1812-1823. This information may have come from the donor of the chair, Mrs. Crane, as she wrote to then-director George Harold Edgell in 1936 that the chair was formerly owned by Lieutenant-Governor Phillips.
[2] The chair is marked on the seat rail and framing piece with ‘T. Hooper’. Thomas Hooper (1779-1868) is a distant relative of the donor of the chair. It is thought that the chair passed to Mrs. Crane through her aunt Sarah Emery Jose (Mrs. Samuel Thompson Hooper) (1822-1914).
1820–40
1945
1780–1800
about 1850
1790–1795
about 1755–65
about 1755–65
about 1760
About 1720-1730
about 1675
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