Leather chair

American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

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).

Leather chair, Maple, oak, American

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Leather chair, Maple, oak, American
Leather chair, Maple, oak, American
Leather chair, Maple, oak, American

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