From: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984): 365
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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF834 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions51 3/8 × 35 3/4 × 23 1/2 in. (130.493 × 90.805 × 59.69 cm) Seat height: 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm) |
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Date175570 |
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Current locationHistoric New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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GeographyProbably made in Massachusetts, or possibly made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumBlack walnut (front legs and stretchers); maple (rear legs and seat rails); white pine (arm cones); birch (all other secondary) |
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ProvenanceHyman Kaufman (died 1947), Boston; consigned to American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, April 1214, 1934, lot 147; sold to Mary Thacher; by descent to Guido R. Perera (19021999), Boston; given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), Boston,1971 |
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Associated namesMary ThacherGuido R. Perera Hyman Kaufman Guido R. Perera |
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ConstructionThe rear legs and rear stiles are of one piece. The construction of the wings is like that of chair no. 101. The arm is screwed to the wing support. The chair is well worn, the frame chipped and riddled with tack holes. The medial stretchers has broken through the left stretcher mortise. The feet once had casters. The cone-shaped elements of the arm supports originally extended to the bottom of the seat rail. Source: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye,New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 368. |
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BibliographyBrock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 365368, no. 102, ill.American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, American Furniture: Property of Hyman Kaufman, Boston, Mass., Part I, sale cat. (April 1214, 1934), 26, lot 147, ill. |