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Side chair
1760–75
Object Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, pine
Dimensions
Overall: 105.4 cm (41 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.169
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Seating and beds
Catalogue Raisonné
Eighteenth-Century American Arts No. 86
InscriptionsIncised on back of front rail: "II"
Incised on edge of front rail: "VI"
Incised on slip seat: "I" [?]
Illegible remnants of printed note tacked to the inside of the back rail.
Incised on edge of front rail: "VI"
Incised on slip seat: "I" [?]
Illegible remnants of printed note tacked to the inside of the back rail.
ProvenanceBy tradition, owned originally by Samuel Chase (1741-1811), and his wife Ann (Baldwin) Chase, m. 1762, of Annapolis, Maryland; by descent in the Chase family to Mrs. Arthur Addison; by descent to her niece and Chase's great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Wise Garnett; purchased for $650 from Mrs. Henry Wise Garnett ca. 1939 for The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts (Accession Date: January 12, 1939)