Armchair, ca. 1775
American
Mahogany, red oak, sweet gum; 39 1/2 x 30 x 23 1/2 in. (100.3 x 76.2 x 59.7 cm)
Bequest of Barbara Bradley Manice, 1984 (1984.287)
Technical Glossary
American
Mahogany, red oak, sweet gum; 39 1/2 x 30 x 23 1/2 in. (100.3 x 76.2 x 59.7 cm)
Bequest of Barbara Bradley Manice, 1984 (1984.287)
This armchair, made for Samuel Verplanck of New York about 1775, is an example of the most fully Rococo of New York seating furniture. It is en suite with a set of chairs (40.137.1–2, 62.250.1–3, 63.22.1–2) that descended in the same family. The Gothic-style splat is a variation of a pattern found in the chair designs engraved and published by Robert Manwaring in London in 1765, but the actual inspiration for the New York chairs was probably a chair imported from England.
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Material and Technique
- • Wood, Furniture
- • Wood, Furniture, North America
- • Wood, Exotic woods
- • Wood, Mahogany
- • Wood, Oak
