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Side chair (one of a pair)

about 1725

Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts

Medium/TechniquePainted maple, original leather upholstery

DimensionsOverall: 113 cm (44 1/2 in.)
Width: 46,5 cm (18 5/16)
Depth: 45,5 cm (17 15/16)

Credit LineFrederick Brown Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, and John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund

Accession number2020.3.2

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ClassificationsFurniture

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ProvenanceBelieved to have been originally owned by Rev. Samuel Mosely (b. 1708 - d. 1791), Harvard class of 1729, Windham, CT; presumably by descent in his family until the 1960s [see note]. By May 1970, sold by Ginsberg & Levy, New York to Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III, Milwaukee, WI; January 19, 2019, The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 912, not sold; 2020, gift of the Vogels to the MFA. (Accession date: February 26, 2020).

NOTE: The Ginsberg and Levy invoice of 1970 included the following history: "Originally owned by the Rev. Samuel Mosely, and thence to a collateral descendant of the present generation."