Side Chair
Collection Item
Artist/Maker
Attributed to Thomas Seymour (1771–1848) for Isaac Vose & Son; carving attributed to Thomas Wightman (1759–1827)
Dimensions
33-1/4 × 19-1/4 × 24-1/4 in.
City of Manufacture
Boston
Date(s)
c. 1820–1824
More Details
Artist / Maker
Attributed to Thomas Seymour (1771–1848) for Isaac Vose & Son; carving attributed to Thomas Wightman (1759–1827)
City of Manufacture
Boston
Date
c. 1820–1824
Dimensions
33-1/4 × 19-1/4 × 24-1/4 in.
Medium
Primary woods: mahogany
Secondary woods: maple, tulip poplar
Surface treatments: replacement upholstery
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Feld, New York, by 1970; Dr. Alan W. Feld, Las Vegas; Sale, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 17, 2019, lot 1294; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2019.
Publications / Exhibition History
Exhibited: 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16-Sept. 7, 1970.
Tracy, Berry B. 19th Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. No. 30.
Mussey, Robert D., Jr., and Clark Pearce. Rather Elegant Than Showy: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose. NH: Massachusetts Historical Society in association with David R. Godine, 2018. Fig. 323.
