Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1951.0021B
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Easy chair |
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Object numberRIF2696 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions44 × 31 × 22 in. (111.76 × 78.74 × 55.88 cm) |
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Date17501770 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyProbably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumAmerican black walnut (primary); soft maple (seat frame) |
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ProvenanceMrs. J. Armory Haskell (née Margaret Moore Riker, 18641942), New York; consigned by her estate to Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 1720, 1944, lot 746. John S. Walton, New York; sold by themto Henry Francis du Pont (1881969), Winterthur, Delaware, 1951; given to Winterthur Museum, 1951 |
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Associated namesHenry Francis du PontMrs. J. Amory Haskell Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. John S. Walton, Inc. |
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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. 79, ill.Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 151152, no. 82. Joan Barzilay Freund, Alan Miller, and Leigh Keno, "The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, Their Influence," American Furniture (1996): 278, fig. 15. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Part Two, sale cat. (May 1720, 1944), lot 746. Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998): 21, 23, fig. 38. |