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Leather chair

1695–1715
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
This tall, flat-top, leather-upholstered chair marks the stylistic transition between the low seventeenth-century back stool and the Baroque-inspired, William and Mary style leather chair. Boston was home to colonial America’s earliest chairmaking industry. The later evolution of the Boston leather chair can be seen on an ornately carved William and Mary style crest rail (52.77.58) and the other with "Spanish" feet and an S-curved or "crook’ed back", precursor to the Queen Anne style (10.125.698).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Leather chair
  • Date: 1695–1715
  • Geography: Made in Massachusetts, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Maple, oak
  • Dimensions: 45 7/8 x 18 x 14 3/4 in. (116.5 x 45.7 x 37.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.133.1
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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