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Side Chair

1760–75
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 753
With its perfect proportions, elegantly integrated crest and splat design, and unsurpassed carving, this is perhaps the best of all Philadelphia Chippendale chairs. The splat pattern, its dominant figure-eight motif flowing from the crest rail, is a free adaptation from plate 16 of the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1762) (see 1982.1133).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Side Chair
  • Date: 1760–75
  • Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Mahogany, Atlantic white cedar, yellow pine; upholstery (modern)
  • Dimensions: 38 x 21 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. (96.5 x 55.6 x 54.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1951
  • Object Number: 51.140
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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