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Furniture
Chest of Drawers
60 in. x 38 in. x 17 1/2 in.
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maple wood
maple wood
chest on frame
late 18th century
1767
1799
Building Furnishings, Nomenclature
Furniture
Russ appraisal "Late 18th century New England maple chest on frame, cove molded cornice over five graduated drawers resting on frame with deeply scalloped apron, cabriole legs with pad feet. Originally a highboy top adapted onto a later base. Drawers with origihal Chippendale brass hardware."
F2003.5.68
item
Florence Griswold Museum
8/26/2003
00/00/00
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Furniture
Side Chair
Artist/Maker Unknown
Artist/Maker Unknown
Primary
38 7/8 in. x 19 1/2 in. x 14 3/4 in.
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wood
wood
1740-1800
1740
1800
Building Furnishings, Nomenclature
Furniture
This type of chair, in period sources called a York chair or fiddle-back chair, was likely made in New York City or the Hudson River Valley between 1740 and 1800. The inexpensive York chairs were quickly turned with minimal carved ornament, and exported to neighboring colonies where they earned the name. Examples were traded to Connecticut and Rhode Island in the 18th century, where they influenced the form of locally produced examples. These chairs represent a simplified iteration of the late-Baroque Queen Anne style, and enjoyed a long period of popularity at a modest cost: similar chairs sold for roughly $1 in the wake of the American Revolution. The large front legs with relatively delicate pad feet of this example emulate the form of a more labor-intensive carved cabriole leg, and are a feature associated with the Hudson River Valley.
This side chair with a trapezoidal, woven rush seat cants back at a slight angle. The rear stiles feature vasiform turning below the yoke-crest, a vasiform backsplat giving it the period name “fiddle-back chair,” and tapered cylindrical front legs beginning with ball turnings below the seat rail and terminating in pad feet. The front stretcher with exaggerated ball and disc turning shows extensive wear consistent with age. There are two unadorned turned stretchers on each side turned of a ring-porous wood (possibly ash), and a single stretcher on the rear.
This chair retains two coats of paint, an early red-brown, possibly ochre, and a later coat of glossy black paint. The woven rush seat is modern. There have been two repairs to the crest rail. In the first, over the left stile, a small split was secured with a nail. In the second, a large loss was patched with black painted pine, secured with a screw in the center, and a wooden peg below the right ear.
1975.11
item
Florence Griswold Museum
4/16/1999
00/00/00
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