Photo: Courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Bayou Bend Collection, Gift of Miss Ima Hogg
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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF235 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions38 1/8 × 21 1/8 × 19 in. (96.838 × 53.658 × 48.26 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); soft maple (secondary) |
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ProvenanceMaxim Karolik (18931963), Boston, and Newport, Rhode Island; sold to Ima Hogg (18821975), Houston, 1957; given to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969 |
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Associated namesMaxim KarolikIma Hogg |
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ConstructionThe flat, double-serpentine crest rail has scrolling "ears" and centers an arched reserve decorated with incised lines enclosing punched dots. The flat-fronted, slightly flaring stiles are cut at an angle where they are tenoned, and wood-pinned to the crest rail. The stiles are rounded in the back, continuous with the rear legs, and square from the top of the seat frame downward. The straight, openwork strapwork splat has incised and carved decoration and is tenoned into the bottom of the crest rail and into the top of the molded shoe, which is nailed with brads to the rear rail and does not overhang the seat frame. The rear rail is tenoned into the rear legs with one pin, as is the front rail to the front legs, and the side rails to the front legs. The side rails are tenoned to the rear legs with two pins each; the proper right side rail contains an extra wood pin. The rear corners of the seat frame contain triangular blocks, once attached with nails, now with screws. The rectilinear arched-top and side and rear stretchers are set flush with their respective legs? outside faces, and tenoned to them without wood pins. The inside corners of the rear legs are chamfered slightly, those of the front legs more deeply. The front legs are stop-fluted on their outside faces. Examined by P.E. Kane, May 26, 2004; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd |
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See also |
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BibliographyDavid B. Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), 4950, no. F83, ill.David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975), 45, no. 75. Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984), 410, footnote 2. |