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Side Chair

1785–95
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
This chair and its mate are coded numbers "II" and "VI" in a set of at least six chairs. The straight legs are like those of the simplest chair designs in Thomas Chippendale's "Director". The back, with rectangular rosettes in the ears and central ovals with carved anthemions in the swag-like slats, is a portent of the neoclassicism of the Federal period. While chairs of this type have been routinely attributed to the Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Trotter, the execution of certain details on this pair suggest that they did not come from Trotter's hand.

(See 44.109.2, .3 for pair.)

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title:
    Side Chair
  • Date:
    1785–95
  • Geography:
    Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Culture:
    American
  • Medium:
    Mahogany, yellow pine, white pine
  • Dimensions:
    38 1/2 x 22 x 20 1/2 in. (97.8 x 55.9 x 52.1 cm)
  • Credit Line:
    Rogers Fund, 1944
  • Object Number:
    44.109.2
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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