Side Chair
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Caption
Side Chair, ca. 1770. Mahogany, white cedar, tulip poplar, modern upholstery, 40 x 25.5 x 22 in. (101.6 x 64.8 x 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Matthew Scott Sloan Collection, Gift of Lidie Lane Sloan McBurney, 1997.150.3a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Title
Side Chair
Date
ca. 1770
Medium
Mahogany, white cedar, tulip poplar, modern upholstery
Classification
Dimensions
40 x 25.5 x 22 in. (101.6 x 64.8 x 55.9 cm)
Markings
Top of backside of splat in red: "14.1924.9" and directly below it: "33-1926-12" Inside of left seat frame, written upside-down "#395 R." On back piece of seat rail "1250" written and "llll" carved. On inside of front seat rail "llll" carved. Underside of slip seat marked "llll". Slip seat has a sticker loosely attached to it, noting: "VT Garmayer & Son, 432-434 E. 71st Street, NY 21, NY, Mrs. M. Sloan, Bklyn, NY"
Credit Line
Matthew Scott Sloan Collection, Gift of Lidie Lane Sloan McBurney
Accession Number
1997.150.3a-b
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