Photo: Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, The Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Perot, 1985.B.15
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Backstool |
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Object numberRIF907 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions41 7/8 × 22 × 18 3/8 in. (106.363 × 55.88 × 46.673 cm) Seat height: 16 in. (40.64 cm) |
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Date173050 |
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Current locationDallas Museum of Art |
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GeographyProbably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumAmerican black walnut (primary); soft maple (rear legs, back and side stretchers, stay rail); eastern white pine (toilet seat blocks and slip seat frame) |
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InscriptionsThe front seat rail is incised "IIII" |
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StyleQueen Anne |
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ProvenancePossibly James Lovell Little, Sr. (18101889), Boston and Marshfield, Massachusetts, about 1830; by descent to his son, James Lovell Little, Jr. (18451914), Brookline, Massachusetts; by descent to his daughter Laura Revere Little (18761947), Massachusetts; sold by her estate, ca. 1940; by descent in the Little family, Matthews Court House, Virginia, before 1953. John S. Walton, New York, 1953; sold to Faith P. Bybee (19001996) and Charles L. Bybee (19001972), Houston, 1954; sold by Faith P. Bybee to the Dallas Museum of Art, 1985 |
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Associated namesJames Lovell Little, Sr.James Lovell Little, Jr. Laura Revere Little Charles L. Bybee Faith P. Bybee John S. Walton, Inc. |
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ConstructionThis chair is joined with pinned, mortise-and-tenon construction. The turned stretchers have rectangular tenons on their ends. The structure of the back was not examined. The inner surfaces of the seat rails are roughly relieved. There are no traces of glue blocks. Six small, rectangular blocks on the inner surface of the rail supported a toilet seat frame. Source: Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1989), 30, no. 12. |
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Bibliography"John S. Walton advertisement," Antiques 64, no. 6 (December 1953): 426, ill.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 16401820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 49, no. 23, ill. Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust, "American Antiques in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee, Part II," Antiques 93, no. 1 (January 1968): 80, ill. Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture:1620 to the Present (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981), 107. Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), 28-30, no. 12, Accession no. 1985.B15, ill. |