Object use

Seating furniture

Object type

Chair

Place of origin

Boston, Massachusetts

Basis of origin

Attribution by Forman.

Date

1695-1710

Basis of date

Winterthur Museum registration records.

Style

William and Mary

Materials

Maple; Red oak; Leather

Attributes & techniques

Carving; Moldings; Turning; Ball feet; Upholstery; Baluster legs

Dimensions

Height 47 in. (119.38 cm), Width 23 in. (58.42 cm), Depth 17 in. (43.18 cm)

History of ownership

Previously in the collection of Helen T. Cook, Wellesley, MA. A virtually identical example is believed to have been owned by Richard Smith III, 1645-1720, of Smithtown, NY.

Exhibition history

Exhibition: "In Praise of America, 1650-1830," The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, February 17-July 6, 1980).

Bibliography

Article: Lynda A. Cain and Nancy Carlisle, "Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture," International View (Spring/summer 2013): 50.

Article: Peter M. Kenny, "Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York's Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves," in American Furniture 1994, ed. Luke Beckerdite (Milwaukee, Wis.: Chipstone Foundation, 1994), fig. 30, 124-25.

Book: Reinier Baarson, Courts and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in Holland, England and America (New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, University of Washington Press, 1988), 163, no. 117.

Book: Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730: An Interpretive Catalogue (New York: W. W. Norton, a Winterthur Book, 1988), no. 64, 308-10.

Book: Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–), no. 1979.

Exhibition catalog: Wendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 62, no. 78.

Subject

Armchairs

Context

Russian leather upholstery is original.

Current owner

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Credit

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Owner's accession number

1958.0553

Rights

Metadata and images digitized from the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection of the Winterthur Library. For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org.

Date digitized

2015-05-26

Date modified

2018-07-16