Description:
Cushion with a great chair (58.050) with a paneled seat, which according to Benno Forman in his "American Seating Furniture 1630-1730" (Winterthur Museum, 1988) is the only known seventeenth-century American slat-back chair with a two-section board seat (chestnut and eastern white pine). The chair illustrates the best turned seating furniture made in New York City toward the close of the seventeenth century. Benno Forman thought that it was made by the same school of turners that made the Stryker family chair from Suffolk, Massachusetts, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and related to a similarly-turned chair in The Connecticut Historical Society. Probably fitted originally with a squab and with detached wooden rings around the arm supports, the chair assumed a throne-like appearance that underscored the hierarchy of the household. The chair was originally painted lampblack, which has been removed.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics Link to share this object record:
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