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1730-1740

Chair

Artist/maker unknown

The turned back stretcher and the dovetailed leg joinery of this chair are characteristic of the earliest compass-seat chairs produced in Philadelphia. The chair descended in the Logan family of Philadelphia.

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Artist/maker unknown, Chair, 1730-1740 | Philadelphia Museum of Art