Photo: Courtesy Historic New England, Boston, 1976.129
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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF836 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions46 3/8 × 34 × 21 11/16 in. (117.793 × 86.36 × 55.086 cm) Seat height: 12 3/4 in. (32.385 cm) |
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Date176075 |
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Current locationHistoric New England (www.historicnewengland.com), formerly Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities |
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GeographyMade in Massachusetts, or made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (front legs and side and medial stretchers); hard maple (rear legs and rear stretchers); ash (arms); white pine (cone-shaped arm supports); soft maple (all other secondary wood) |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceMary Thacher, Massachusetts; by descent to Guido R. Perera (19021999), Boston; given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England), Boston, 1976 |
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Associated namesMary ThacherGuido R. Perera |
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ConstructionThe stiles and the rear legs are of one piece. The side seat rails are tenoned into the front seat rail. A dovetail-shaped extension of each front leg fits into a slot in the front seat rail. An ash wedge set through the dovetail tightens the joint. The stiles are tenoned into the crest rail. The wings are dovetailed and nailed to the stiles and crest. Source: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye,New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 370. |
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BibliographyBrock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 368370, no. 103, ill. |