Carver Chair
Maker
Unknown, American
Additional Title(s)
- Carver Chair Maine
Collections
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1690
Mediummaple, ash, and red stain
Dimensions45 x 26 1/2 x 20 in. (114.3 x 67.3 x 50.8 cm.)
DescriptionA large turned or ‘Carver’ chair, in maple and ash with boldly turned finials, tow banks of turned spindles, ball-turnings on the back posts, and ‘mushroom’ handholds on front legs. A massive chair with 2-1/2 inch posts and 45-1/2 inches tall - in an old 19th century red stain with no repair or restoration. While it lacks the traditional turned elements of North Shore, Massachusetts chairs, and the double bank of spindles is associated more often with South Shore Massachusetts examples, this chair descended in a family from Lowell, Massachusetts until the late 1980s.
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Label TextA "Carver chair" is a turned, spindle-back chair with decorative finials and a rush seat, named after John Carver (ca. 1576-1621), first governor of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, who is said to have brought such a chair to America aboard the Mayflower.Status
On viewObject numberL2015.41.98
William Blake
ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.17
