Chair (Side chair)

Chair (Side chair)

Unidentified (Furniture maker)

Splats with diamond-centered figure eights were common in British chairmaking during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Eastern Massachusetts, principally Boston, was the American center for interpretation of this general pattern, with only a few examples produced in Philadelphia and the South. The distinctive asymmetrical knee carving was copied directly and with reasonable fidelity from an English prototype (see armchair 51.80). The same pattern appears on a sizable and varied group of Boston furniture from the 1760s to 1770s, consisting of two matching settees (see 59.1877), a card table, three armchairs, and nineteen side chairs representing three splat patterns. Hairy paw and claw feet were both used.

93.663 (H) x 59.69 (W) x 55.88 (D)