Side chair

Creator:

Goddard, John, 1723-1785 (attributed)

Published/Created:

Newport, Newport county, Rhode Island, United States
ca. 1750–1760

Physical Description:

Height: 38 in.

Materials:

Mahogany; linen

Notes:

Sack catalogue description: Queen Anne mahogany claw-and-ball foot side chair, the crest centered by a carved shell in bold relief, vase-shaped pierced splat; wavy stiles, claw-and-ball feet with distinctive ribbed knuckles, the chair is in the finest original condition including webbing and linen undercovering. Attributed to John Goddard; the claw-and-ball feet of this chair, with their distinctive ribbed knuckles, relates to those on the Jabez Bowen tea table and the John Brown corner chair. Two other examples of this form, but not of this set, are known to us: one is in the Karolik collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Hipkiss, The M. and M. Karolik Collection, p. 142, pl. 80; the other is in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone.
Related objects: Book: Edwin Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Boston, Mass.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), p. 142, pl. 80. Website: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/side-chair-38712 (accessed February 13, 2014). Website: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WebZ/SortedQuery?sessionid=01-44678-1156132408&termsrch-ti%3D=Chipstone+Accession+No.+1962.12&format=B&fmtclass=&next=html/nfbrief.html&bad=error/badsearch.html&entitytoprecno=1&entitycurrecno=1&numrecs=12&entitysuppressReview=true (accessed February 13, 2014).
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Bibliography: Book: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1990), vol. 7, p. 1828, 1874, pl. P5060.
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YUAG catalogue note: The related chair in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is object 39.172; the related chair in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone (now Chipstone Foundation Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is object 1962.012.

Variant Titles:

Queen Anne mahogany claw-and-ball foot side chair

Topics:

Decoration and ornament -- Queen Anne style
Furniture -- United States

Period/Style:

Queen Anne

Culture:

American

Accession Number:

5060

Genre:

side chairs (AAT)

Format:

Image
Physical Object

Content Type:

Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Title:

Israel Sack, Inc., Archive

Source Created:

New York, New York, United States
1957–1990

Source Note:

Sack, 1983
This information is taken from the Israel Sack Furniture Archive and may not reflect current scholarship.

Folder:

Folder 10319 cab2dr2 tiff_complete

Yale Collection:

Yale University Art Gallery

Digital Collection:

Israel Sack Furniture Archive

oid pointer:

10969749

OID:

11872184

PID:

digcoll:847303

Number of Pages: 4