Side Chair, Used at Drayton Hall, 1750-1770

Drayton Hall, located just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the major early plantation houses in America, completed between 1737 and 1742. John Drayton, who likely designed the house from English pattern books, was a wealthy rice planter. The interior was furnished in fashionable English decorative arts, including this ornate side chair, one of four from the house that have survived.