Chair (Side chair)

Museum Object Number 2003.0009

Object Name

Chair (Side chair)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Dorothy Embury Staats and Robert Staats, Jr. in memory of Alice Stanely Coe

Creator (Role)

Adam S. Coe (Furniture Maker)

Creator Notes

A Newport deed for land dated 1810 is inscribed "Adam S Coe cabinetmaker." In 1847 he sold the land "with a workshop to Simeon Hazard cabinetmaker." Coe later joined the firm of Robert P. See and Company, lumber merchants. (Downs, fig. 276)

Date of Birth

01/23/1782

Date of Death

12/12/1862

Place of Origin

Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Origin is either Rhode Island or New York.

Date

1795-1810

Materials

Mahogany veneer; Mahogany; Maple; Chestnut

Dimensions (inches)

Dimensions (centimeters)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Comstock, Helen. 1962 American Furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century styles.
• Discussion of similar objects.
[Book] Miller, V. Isabelle. 1956 Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers: 1650-1860.
• Discussion of similar objects. See page 55.