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Chair (Armchair)
Solomon Fussell
1740-1760
Category
Furniture
Creator/Artist/Maker
Solomon Fussell (Furniture Maker)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Maple, soft
- Rush
Museum Object Number
1964.1523
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1964.1523
Object Name
Chair (Armchair)
Category
Furniture
Creator (Role)
Solomon Fussell (Furniture Maker)
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1740-1760
Materials
- Maple, soft
- Rush
Dimensions (inches)
44.75 (H) x 26.25 (W) x 21.5 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
113.665 (H) x 66.675 (W) x 54.61 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Forman, Benno M. 1980 Delaware Valley "Crookt Foot" and Slat-Back Chairs: The Fussell-Savery Connection. Winterthur Portfolio. 15 (Spring): 41-64.
• Figure 10, p. 55Book: Downs, Joseph & du Pont, Henry Francis. 1952 American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published: , no. 32Book: Comstock, Helen. 1962 American Furniture: seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century styles.
• fig. 139.