Spindle-back armchair
Unknown
1660–1700 · Maple, soft maple, ash · The American Wing
Seventeenth-century chairs of this type were produced by turners. The chair’s components were quickly fashioned on a lathe, easily assembled, and finished with seats woven from rush or another inexpensive fiber. This armchair is one of a minority of seventeenth-century turned chairs with posts ornamented below the seat and it represents a rare occurrence of turnings on both the rear and front legs.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1660–1700
- Medium
- Maple, soft maple, ash
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951
