Side Chair

Artist / Maker

Attributed to Joseph Brown Barry (1757–1838)

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

c. 1815–1818

Dimensions

33 x 18-3/4 x 21 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany

Secondary woods: ash, tulip poplar

Surface treatments: brass, replacement upholstery

Provenance

George Harrison (1762–1845) and Sophia Francis Harrison (1769–1851), Philadelphia; To their nephew (whose affairs George managed) Joshua Francis Fisher (1807–1873) and Eliza Izard Middleton Fisher (1815–1819); To their daughter Maria Middleton Fisher Coxe (1847–1933) and Brinton Coxe (1833–1892); To their son Edmund James Drifton Coxe (1881–1934) and Elizabeth Kean Michaux Turner Coxe (1883–1959); To their son Daniel Michaux Coxe (1904–1970) and Dorothy Weld Coxe (1906–1986), Philadelphia. With Robert Townshend Trump (1933–2015), Flourtown, PA; Purchased by Schrimshers, 1990.

Publications / Exhibition History

Fennimore, Donald L. and Robert T. Trump. “Joseph B. Barry, Philadelphia Cabinetmaker.” The Magazine Antiques 135 (May 1989): 1220, pl. IX.