Object Number 1951.0072.001

Object Name

Chair (Easy chair)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Unknown (Furniture Maker)
This record is to be used when the maker of an object is unknown.

Scalamandré (Fabric manufacturer)

Charles Mullins (Upholsterer)

Place of Origin

Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, South, United States, North America

Origin Notes

The creation place pertains to the chair.

Secondary Place of Origin

Long Island City, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Secondary Origin Notes

The upholstery fabric was manufactured by Scalamandre of New York, c. 1983.

Date

1760-1780

Materials

Walnut, black; Wool

Techniques

Woven (damask)

Dimensions (inches)

44.25 (H) , 36 (W) , 32.75 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

112.395 (H) , 91.44 (W) , 83.185 (D)

Measurement Notes

OW is at crest. OD is from crest to center front feet.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Downs, Joseph & du Pont, Henry Francis. 1952 American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 83.
[Book] Gusler, Wallace. 1979 Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia, 1710-1790.
• Published: no. 120, p. 175.
[Catalogue] Gusler, Wallace. 1978 Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia: The Product of Mind and Hand.
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[Book] Hummel, Charles F. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chippendale Furniture: Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies.
• Published: fig. 130.
[Book] Greene, Jeffrey P. 1996 American Furniture of the Eighteenth Century.
• Chair from set published: p. 74
[Book] Sweeney, John A. H. 1963 The Treasure House of Early American Rooms.
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