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)
01/23/1782-12/12/1862
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)

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.