Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Del., 1956.0010.002
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Spindle-back armchair |
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Object numberRIF1748 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions43 1/8 × 24 5/8 × 18 in. (109.538 × 62.548 × 45.72 cm) |
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Date16701710 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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Geographyor made in Westerly, Rhode Island, or made in Newport, Rhode Island, or made in Kingstown, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumSoft maple |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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StylePilgrim |
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ProvenancePossibly Joseph Clarke (16181694), Newport, and Westerly, Rhode Island, or his son Joseph Clarke (16431727), Westerly; by descent to William Case Clarke, South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Col. George Clinton Clarke (18041787), South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Case Clarke (18411902), Wakefield and South Kingstown, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, William Case Clarke (18781963), South Kingstown, Rhode Island and West Woodstock, Connecticut; sold to Harry Arons, Ansonia, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1955; sold to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1956 |
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Associated namesJoseph ClarkeJoseph Clarke William Case Clarke Col. George Clinton Clarke William Case Clarke William Case Clarke Case and Clarke family Harry Arons |
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ConstructionThe turned leg/stiles have reel- and ball-turned tops, some slightly vasiform turnings as well as incised rings below, and are circular in plan from just above the lower back rail to the bottom. The leg/stiles are joined by three turned, ring-incised rails doweled and tenoned into them. The rails are joined to each other by two sets of three tapering ball-, ring- and vasiform-turned spindles doweled into them. The rails of the rush-covered seat are also doweled and wood-pinned to the rear leg/stiles as well as to the front legs, which are turned in a manner similar to the leg/stiles. The turned sloping arms are doweled and wood-pinned to the rear leg/stiles and the tops of the front legs. The simply turned rear and side stretchers are doweled into their respective legs, as is the ring- and vase-turned upper front stretcher. The lower front stretcher is doweled and wood-pinned to the front legs. The feet were formerly fitted with casters. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, May 7, 2014; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd. |
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See also |
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BibliographyBenno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture,16301730: An Interpretive Catalogue (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988), 108109, no. 8, ill.Robert F. Trent, "New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture," American Furniture (1999): 215217, fig. 11. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 143144, no. 4. |