Settee

Unknown

1740–60 · Walnut, yellow pine · The American Wing

With its high, boldly scalloped back, C-scroll arms, and three cabriole front legs, this settee is an elegant variation of an English type fashionable around 1710. It is the earliest known settee made in America and the only known Philadelphia example in the Queen Anne style. It descended in the family of James Logan (1674–1751), secretary to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1740–60

Medium

Walnut, yellow pine

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1925