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Side chair
Carved by: Samuel McIntire (American, 1757–1811)
about 1795–1805
Object Place: Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, ash, birch
Dimensions
Overall: 97.5 cm (38 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts
Accession Number39.174
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Seating and beds
Catalogue Raisonné
Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts, no. 90
Randall, no. 164
DescriptionSide chair with carved and molded shield-shaped back; above a rosette segment rises a medial splat with pedestal, vase, and wheat-ears, carved in relief, flanked by two curving bars crossed with drapery forms festooned; square, tapering front legs with spade feet carved with string of pendent flowers on face of legs; spade feet are applied mahogany; seat rails of ash and birch; seat upholstered over the rail.
ProvenanceOwned originally by Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799) of Salem, Massachusetts; purchased in Salem for the Karolik Collection from Charles Buckham(?) from estate of Mrs. William C. West; given to the Museum as part of the M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts in 1939..