1956.0094.006 Form
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  • Category:

    Furniture

  • Place of Origin:

    Scituate or Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

  • Date:

    1650-1700

  • Materials:

    Maple, soft; Ash, black; Pine, white

  • Museum Object Number:

    1956.0094.006


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Object Number

1956.0094.006

Object Name

Form (Joined form)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Place of Origin

Scituate or Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Fairbanks and Trent attribute this form to the Scituate shops founded along the North River by Thomas Little (arr. 1630-d.1672) and others, but the style was also practiced in nearby Marshfield and Duxbury, Massachusetts. (Both Thomas Little and Thomas Little Jr. were dead by 1676.) Forman notes the difficulty of separating the products of the Scituate ad Marshfield shops, given the fact they were geographically close and linked through kinship ties as well.

Date

1650-1700

Materials

Maple, soft; Ash, black; Pine, white

Dimensions (inches)

20.2 (H) , 81.25 (W) , 12.125 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

51.4 (H) , 206.4 (W) , 30.8 (D)

Measurement Notes

OW at seat; OD at feet. W (feet) 58.5 in. (148.5 cm); D (seat) 11.5 in. (29.1 cm).

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Forman, Benno M. 1988 American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalog.
cat. no. 40, pp. 185-86
[Book] Fairbanks, Jonathan L. & Trent, Robert F. 1982 New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. II. 100-360.
Puiblished: v.2, p. 218, cat. no. 180
[Book] Nutting, Wallace. 1928 Furniture Treasury.
no. 2710
[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