Object use
Seating furniture
Object type
Chair
Place of origin
Boston, Massachusetts; England; France
Basis of origin
Winterthur attributes the chair to Boston and the silk textile to England or France.
Date
1735-1745
Basis of date
Dated by Winterthur staff. The chair was reupholstered in 1960 using silk probably woven between 1705 and 1715.
Style
William and Mary; Queen Anne
Materials
Black walnut; Maple; Silk textile; Upholstery materials
Basis of materials
Woods identified by Winterthur through microanalysis: Primary: American black walnut; secondary: soft maple group (seat rails, splat).
Attributes & techniques
Cabriole legs; Stump legs; Club feet; Pad feet; Carving; Veneer; Banding; Varnishing
Dimensions
Height 43.5 in. (110.5 cm), Width 28.375 in. (72.07 cm), Depth 23.5 in. (59.7 cm)
History of ownership
The armchair is said to have been owned originally by Capt. John Holland (born 1758) and his wife Sarah (May) Holland (born 1772), and to have descended in either the Holland or the Beal families of Boston and Rhode Island.
Exhibition history
Exhibition: "Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, August 18, 2015-February 15, 2016), Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library (Winterthur, DE, March 26, 2016-January 8, 2017)
Bibliography
Book: John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), fig. 154.
Book: Jay E. Cantor, Winterthur (New York: Abrams, 1997), 105.
Catalog: Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, et al., New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Wilmington, DE: Winterthur Publications, 1997), cat. 13, 24-26.
Article: Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," in American Furniture, ed. Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1998): figs 20 and 34, 14-16.
Subject
Armchairs
Current owner
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Credit
Museum purchase with funds provided by Henry Francis du Pont
Owner's accession number
1959.0069
Rights
Object owned by the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, https://www.winterthur.org/. 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.
Source
Decorative Arts Photographic Collection
Date digitized
2019-01-25
Date modified
2019-01-25