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Roundabout chair |
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Object numberRIF1309 |
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Maker(needlework) Mary Wright Alsop, American, 17401829 |
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DimensionsH × W × D (diag.): 32 11/16 × 19 1/8 × 26 1/8 in. (83.026 × 48.578 × 66.358 cm) |
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Date1757 |
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Current locationHistoric Deerfield, Inc. |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island, or made in Middletown, Connecticut(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); pine (slip seat frame) |
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MarksInscribed "MOLLY WRIGHT" in brown wool tent stitches at right angles at rear slip seat. The names are worked in rectangular blocks. Source: Glee Krueger, "A Middletown Cameo: Mary Wright Alsop and Her Needlework," The Connecticut Historical Society 52, Summer/Fall 1987 (Hartford, Conn.: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1987): 157. |
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InscriptionsDated "1757" in ink numerals on seat bottom. Source: Glee Krueger, "A Middletown Cameo: Mary Wright Alsop and Her Needlework," The Connecticut Historical Society 52, Summer/Fall 1987 (Hartford, Conn.: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1987): 157. |
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ProvenanceHistoric Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts, by 1992 |
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BibliographyDean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 38, fig. 64.Glee Krueger, "A Middletown Cameo: Mary Wright Alsop and Her Needlework," The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 52, nos.34 (Summer/Fall 1987): 154155, fig. 7. Iona W. Lincoln, "Flowers in the Decorative Arts," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (April 19, 1985): 1, 6063, unnumbered ill. p.63, ill. Philip Zea, "Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England 17501850," Historic Deerfield, Inc. (1998): 6465, fig. 93. "Current and Coming," Antiques 154, no. 4 (October 1998): 392, ill. Elizabeth Stillinger, Historic Deerfield (New York: Dutton Studio Books, 1992), 76, ill. |