Museum Object Number1954.0524 |
Chair (Side chair)
Furniture
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
Unknown (Furniture maker)
This record is to be used when the maker of an object is unknown.
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1665-1695
Maple, red; Oak, red
34.8 (H) , 18 (W) , 15 (D)
88.392 (H) , 45.72 (W) , 38.1 (D)
OH at right post; OW at seat; OD from back of post to front leg blocks. H (seat) 19.5 in. (49.5 cm); W (crest) 17.75 in. (45.0 cm); W (front leg blocks) 17.625 in. (44.6 cm); D (seat) 15 in. (38.1 cm).
Seventeenth-Century-style joined side chair made of red maple and red oak with padded seat and back upholstered with leather, one of a pair. Block-and-ball turned stiles support the raked chair back, which has an upholstered rectangular tablet outlined with upholstery tacks. The rectangular seat frame is outlined in a double line of upholstery tacks. The ball-and-block-turned front legs terminate in elongated ball feet. There is a ball-turned stretcher between the front legs. There are two rectangular stretchers on each side of the chair and one rectangular rear stretcher.
[Book] Forman, Benno M. 1988 American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalog.
• cat. no. 46, pp. 216-17
[Article] Kamil, Neil D. 1995 "Hidden in Plain Sight: Disappearance and Material Life in Colonial New York". American Furniture. 1995: 191-249.
• fig. 2, pp. 193-94
[Thesis] Brincat, Lauren Holly. 2014 John Browne's Flushing: Material Life on a Dutch Frontier, 1645-1700. M.A. Winterthur Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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