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Mystery solved: identifying an early Philadelphia Federal side chair.
Early collectors sought unusual objects for the creativity they displayed as well as for any distinctions such pieces might bestow upon their collections. More recently, as a consequence of extensive cataloguing and more rigorous identification and analyses, many of these early treasures have been found to have been heavily restored, not American, out of period, or outright fakes. The unusual and unique have acquired worrisome connotations. Still, the task of cataloguing early American furniture is far from complete, and unusual pieces of furniture continue to come into view. Such objects add to our understanding of early American furniture by inviting research into previously uncharted areas.
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A case in point is the shield-back side chair in Figure 1, which lacks both a provenance and an inventory of features that allow a ready identification of its time and place of origin. The splat design is unfamiliar, and the exuberant carving of the back evokes the excesses displayed by some revival furniture. Since very little early American furniture design and construction is unique, finding multiple uses of a particular feature is to be expected, so it is interesting that a search of publications yielded only one example with a similar back: an undocumented and unidentified side chair published by Wallace Nutting in his 1928 Furniture Treasury (Fig. 3). Regrettably, Nutting offered no historical insights or other details about the chair, and because its whereabouts is unknown, it is of little use in identifying the mysterious shield-back chair.
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