The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Turned Armchair

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 713

Description

The rarest and grandest of the early turned chairs are those with rows of spindles below the seat as well as above it. Although its boxlike form may look simple at first glance, this chair is a complex composition with subtle variations in the shaping of the rungs and in the spacing of its horizontal and vertical members.
Provenance

Descended through eight generations in the family of John Tufts, Sherborn, Massachusetts; Wallace Nutting, Framingham, Massachusetts, by 1921; Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1921–died 1951
See also
What
Furniture (5,725)

Seating furniture (1,792)

Chairs (1,486)

Armchairs (523)
Where
North and Central America (81,404)

United States (78,109)

Massachusetts (1,048)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,180)
In the Museum
American Decorative Arts (11,825)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
American Furniture, 1620–1730: The Seventeenth–Century and William and Mary Styles

The United States, 1600–1800 A.D.
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