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Settee (Windsor settee)
1790-1805
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Connecticut or Rhode Island; New England; United States; North America
Materials
- Ash
- Maple, black
- Maple, red
- Maple, sugar
- Birch
- Maple, hard
- Maple, soft
- Oak, red
- Tulip poplar
Museum Object Number
1959.1528
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1959.1528
Object Name
Settee (Windsor settee)
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Connecticut or Rhode Island; New England; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Previously catalogued as possibly Massachusetts or Connecticut. Origin is eastern Connecticut or Rhode Island.
Date
1790-1805
Materials
- Ash
- Maple, black
- Maple, red
- Maple, sugar
- Birch
- Maple, hard
- Maple, soft
- Oak, red
- Tulip poplar
Dimensions (inches)
38 (H) x 98.75 (W) x 23.25 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
97 (H) x 250.8 (W) x 59.1 (D)
Measurement Notes
OW is at handholds. OD is at feet.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Nutting, Wallace. 1917 A Windsor handbook : comprising illustrations & descriptions of Windsor furniture of all periods, including side chairs, arm chairs, comb-backs, writing-arm Windsors, babies' high backs, babies' low chairs, child's chairs, also settees, love seats, stools & tables.
• Related object: ill. p. 177.Book: Cantor, Jay E. 1985 Winterthur.
• Published: p. 142.Catalogue: American Galleries. 1929 Loan Exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century furniture and glass...for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc.; September 25th-October 9th, 1929.
• Published: no. 532.Book: Evans, Nancy Goyne. 1997 American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms.
• Published: fig. 1-82, p. 111.Electronic: Yale University Art Gallery. Rhode Island Furniture Archive. http://rifa.art.yale.edu/index.htm
• RIF1242