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On Display: House - Hart Room
Form (Joined form)
1650-1700
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Scituate or Marshfield; Massachusetts; Plymouth; New England; United States; North America
Materials
- Maple, soft
- Ash, black
- Pine, white
Museum Object Number
1956.0094.006
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1956.0094.006
Object Name
Form (Joined form)
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Scituate or Marshfield; Massachusetts; Plymouth; 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) x 81.25 (W) x 12.125 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
51.4 (H) x 206.4 (W) x 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).
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Forman, Benno M. 1988 American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalog.
• cat. no. 40, pp. 185-86Book: Fairbanks, Jonathan L. & Trent, Robert F. 1982 New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. II. 100-360.
• Puiblished: v.2, p. 218, cat. no. 180Book: Nutting, Wallace. 1928 Furniture Treasury.
• no. 2710Thesis: 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