Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2221
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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF4901 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions40 1/4 × 20 × 20 7/8 in. (102.235 × 50.8 × 53.023 cm) |
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Date17401760 |
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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 (front and side seat rails); white pine (splat core) |
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ProvenanceHenry Francis du Pont (18801969) Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1969 |
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Associated namesHenry Francis du Pont |
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See also |
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BibliographyNancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 2426, no. 13.Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998): 1415, fig. 21. Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 16401970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 86, fig. 86. 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), 257n5. |