Chair (Armchair)

William Savery

1755-1765

Category

Furniture

Creator (Role)

William Savery (Cabinetmaker)

Place of Origin

Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America

Date

1755-1765

Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label

Type: Label

Location: Inside the rear seat rail

Inscription: "All Sorts of Chairs and/ Joiners [obliterated] or/ Made and Sold by/ William Savery,/ At the Sign of the/ Chair, a little be-/ low the Market, in/ Second Street./PHILADELPHIA".

Mark/Signature: Yes

Materials

Walnut
Pine, hard

Dimensions (inches)

40 (H) x 29.25 (W) x 22.5 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

101.6 (H) x 74.3 (W) x 57.15 (D)

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. 39, label illus. no. 389.

Book: Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall. 1957 The Cabinetmakers of America.

• Related: See biographical discussion and commentary on labeled and attributed pieces on pp. 191-92.

Book: Hummel, Charles F. 1976 A Winterthur Guide to Chippendale Furniture: Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies.

• Published: fig. 43.

Catalogue: Samuel T. Freeman and Co. 1927 From the Estates of the late G. Taylor Bentley, 185 E. Walnut Lane, Germantown and Hannah P. Lawrence, 1611 Summer Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

• Published: illustrated on the cover and no. 367.

Book: Kirk, John T. 1982 American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830.

Catalogue: Conforti, Michael & Puig, Francis J. 1989 The American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620-1820.

• Published: fig. 31, p. 102.

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Chair (Armchair)

William Savery

1755-1765