Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Va., 1930-158
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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF179 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785Maker Unknown |
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Dimensions41 × 21 × 17 1/8 in. (104.14 × 53.34 × 43.498 cm) |
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Date174060 |
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Current locationThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia |
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GeographyProbably made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); maple (secondary and slip seat frame) |
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Marks"VI" cut into inside of front seat rail; "V" cut into slip-seat frame. |
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ProvenanceLouis Guerineau Myers (18741932), New York, by 1929. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia |
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Associated namesLouis Guerineau Myers |
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BibliographyBarry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 60-61, no. 51, 1930-158, ill.Milo M. Naeve, "The American Furniture," Antiques 95, no. 1 (January 1969): 132, ill. Marion Day Iverson, The American Chair 1630-1890 (New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1957), 77, fig. 57. Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 569, ill. |