Leather chair

Unknown

1695–1715 · Maple, oak · The American Wing

This tall, flat-top, leather-upholstered chair marks the stylistic transition between the low seventeenth-century back stool and the Baroque-inspired, William and Mary style leather chair. Boston was home to colonial America’s earliest chairmaking industry. The later evolution of the Boston leather chair can be seen on an ornately carved William and Mary style crest rail (52.77.58) and the other with "Spanish" feet and an S-curved or "crook’ed back", precursor to the Queen Anne style (10.125.698).

Artist

Unknown

Date

1695–1715

Medium

Maple, oak

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1929