Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2216
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Roundabout chair |
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Object numberRIF2695 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions44 1/2 × 30 × 24 1/2 in. (113.03 × 76.2 × 62.23 cm) |
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Date174575 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyMade in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumAmerican black walnut (primary) |
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Inscriptions"Large Round about Chair/ with Top, Belonged to Elizabeth/ Wentworth, wife of Joseph Haven/ Grandmother Thacher's Uncle" in black ink on a deteriorated, blue-bordered, gummer paper label on the underside of the left seat rail. "II" incised on the right front seat rail rabbet |
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ProvenanceElizabeth Wentworth Haven (died 1813) and Joseph Haven (died 1829), Boston; by descent to his niece, Elizabeth Haven Thatcher (17981879). Israel Sack, Inc., probably Boston; sold to Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), Winterthur, Delaware; given to Winterthur Museum, Delaware |
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Associated namesElizabeth Wentworth HavenHenry Francis du Pont Israel Sack, Inc. Elizabeth Haven Thatcher |
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BibliographyJoseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 64, ill.Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 130131, no. 72. Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), no. 154. Marshall B. Davidson, The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1967), fig. 162. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 16401970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), fig. 118. John A. H. Sweeney, The Treasure House of Early American Rooms (New York: Viking Press, 1963), 35. John A. H. Sweeney, Winterthur Illustrated (New York: Chanticleer Press, 1963), 35. |