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Final study Furniture Flashcards

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Federal

eagles - urns - columns

Society

Forms

Objects

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  • 1790-1820
  • continued English influence
    • ​Robert Adam
  • Pattern Books
    • Sheraton
    • Hepplewhite
  • ​Blure of regional characteristics
  • Price books - production cost of items

FORMS

  • Gometric forms, elegant, graceful, delicate
  • classical motifs and forms
  • veneer and inlay
    • pictoral and pattern

OBJECTS

  • Sideboards
  • Knife boxes
  • Lady’s worktable/sowing table
  • Writing desk/ tambourshutters
  • Lolling chairs
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Gentlemens secretary/desk & bookcase

Salem

1800-10

doors loned with curtains

eagle finial

brass finials

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Empire - late classical revival

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  • Napoleonic empire
  • classical civilizations
  • Pattern books, Thomas Hope (1807), George Smith (1808)
  • Ackermann’s Repository - London (1809-28)
  • Larger shops/waregouses
  • Better transportation - export - networking
  • multifunctional, alterning objects

FORMS

  • large volume, monumental
  • guilding, metal mounts, marble, glass
  • Klismos, curule, saber legs
  • dolphins, anthemina, acanthus, lotus leaves
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Gothic revival

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  • from England
  • picturesque
  • pointed arches, trefoils, quarter foils
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Rococo Revival

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  • exaggerated ornament from Rococo
  • c-scrolls, floral carving, piercing
  • john Henry Belter
  • innovative furniture
  • internationsal expositions/fairs
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Rural Furniture

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  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • Pensylvania - German
  • South - Charleston
  • smaller shops
  • Folk Art
  • Local woods
  • paint
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Secretary

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Secretary

Charleston, SC

1800-10

ovals

stumpy legs

veneers

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Card table

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card table

baltimore

ca1800

  • game of the generation
  • the wor of many hands
  • pictorial
  • rectilinear
  • stringing & banding
  • kylyx legs
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Federal chairs

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Worktable

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Worktable / sowingtable

Boston

1790-1810

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Tambour desk

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Tambour Desk / ladies desk

Seymour

Boston

1793-96

tambout sutters

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Commode

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Commode

John & Thomas Seymour

Boston

1808

demi loomed, semi circular

color contrast

cast feet, lion paw

swing doors

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Elastic chair

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Elastic chair

Samuel Gnagg

Boston

1808-12

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Card table

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Card table

Samuel McIntire

Salem - Oak Hill House

1804-05

spade feet, rays of veneer, bow knot

McIntire

Floral carving

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Chest on chest

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chest on chest

Samuel McIntire

Salem - Oak Hill - Derby family

1806-09

Fruit basket carving

Finial: female symbolizes all the allegoris of the nation, liberty, victory

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Chest on chest

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chest on chest

Samuel Badlam

Drochester

1791

liberty

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Secretary

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Secretary

John & thomas Seymour

Boston

ca1800

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Desk & Bookcase

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desk and bookcase/secretary

Philladephia

1830

hairy paw feet

applied brass

fall front

recessed ring catch

french floral mounts around key hole

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Klisoms chair

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Klismos chair

Boston

1815-25

saber legs

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Curule chair

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curule chair - grecian cross

Duncan Phyfe

NYC

1820

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Painted chair

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Painted chair, saber legs

Baltimore

1815

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Sofa

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Sofa

Isaac Vose & Son

Boston

1823

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Sofa, Grecian

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Grecian Sofa

Isaac Vose & son

Boston

1818-30

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Gracian coach

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Grecian coach

Hugh Finley

Baltimore

1820

“deline” - from pattern book

painted gold

on casters

round pillow

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Pier table
Pier table Emmons & Archibald Boston 1815-20 King of persia marble top scooped side and front mirror in back
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Pier table
Pier table **_Charles Honore Launier_** NYC 1815-19 Trained in France ornamental, gold
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Lyre, Side Chair
Lyre, side chair Duncan Phyfe NYC 1810-20 carved wire back babered legs hairy ancles and paw feet
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Secretary
Secretary - cylinder desk and book case Duncan Phyfe NYC 1815-20
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Dining table
Dining table - extension Briggs 1843-45 Revival - innovtion
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**_Desk and bookcase_**
Desk and bookcase NYC 1836-55 Gothic revival
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Center table
Center table NYC 1850 gothic revival gothic apron columnar legs
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Library chair
Library chair & staircase Boston 1860 Rococo revival & innovation convertible
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Center table
Center table Boston 1847-59 Rococo revival turtle shaped marble top centertable to walk around
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Card Table
Card Table Charles Baudoine NYC 1850-55
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Sofa
Sofa / Tete-a-tete sofa **_John Henry Belter_** NYC 1850-60 rosalie pattern massive amount of ornamnets shape of back typical
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Pier/console table
Pier console table John Henry Belter NYC 1850-60
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Slipper chair
Slipper chair John Henry Belter NYC 1854-67
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**_Sideboard_**
Sideboard Iganatiuz Lutz Philladelphia 1850-60 death in the dining room man concuring nature
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Bed hanging
Bed hanging Mary Bulman Maine
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High Chest
High chest Connecticut 1770-90 cherry Hold on to earlier style shell not as elaborate and incorporated to the rest of the design
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Chest on chest
chest on chest Connecticut 1760-80 tiger maple rural
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chest on chest on frame
chest on chest on frame Samuel Dunlap New Hampshire 1790-95 old technique
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**_German Dower Chest_**
German Dower Chest Eastern Pensylvania 1780 most of them are from last half of 18th C
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Secretary - rural
Secretary **_Thomas Day (was a free black)_** North Carolina 1841
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**_Desk & Bookcase_**
Desk & Bookcase John Shearer Virginia 1800-16 desk 1801, bookcase 1806
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Mannerism
1650-1720
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Early Baroque/William & Mary
1690-1730
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Late Baroque / Queen Anne
1730-1760
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Rococo / Chippendale
1750-95
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Neoclassical / Federal
1790-1820
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Late Neoclassical / Empire / Greek revival
1815-1830
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Revival Styles / Gothic / Rococo
1835-1860
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Box
Box New England 1680-90
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**_Joined chest_**
Joined chest Regional Massachusets 1680-90 frame and panel construction, mortis & tennon mortis & tenon lunetts with flowers and levaves
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Chest of Drawers
Chest of Drawers Mason Messinger Boston 1650-60
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Cupboard
Cupboard Massachusets 1680 painted black maple turnings applied boss (round dots) strpwork in middle
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Wainscoat chair
Wainscoat chair 1680-1700
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Turned chair
Turned chair Massachusettes 1680-1700
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Leather back chair
Leather back chair late 17th C
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Chest
Chest Ipswich, Mass flat low relief carving tree of life brackets with initials joint chest, 6 board chest
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Cupboard
Cupboard Virginia late 17th C
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High chest of drawers
High chest of drawers Boston 1690-1720 William and Mary turned legs burl wood veneers shape of skirt echoes stretchers dovetail joints continous drawers
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Escritoire
Escritoire Boston 1720s secret compartments
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Japaned High chest
Japaned High chest William & Mary Boston 1730s
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Banister back armchair
Banister back armchair Boston 1720 William & Mary
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Table
Table Boston ca1730
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High chest of drawers
High chest of drawers Boston Queen Anne scroll top pad feet fluted canters pilasters on corners carbreol legs
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Chair queen anne
Chair queen anne Boston 1730s curvilinear/spindle stretchers trapazoidal seat pad feet
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Side Chair
Side Chair Nathaniel Gould Boston ca1760 thin seat claws pointing back
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Bombé Desk & bookcase
Bombé Desk & bookcase Boston ca1760s plane kneebrackets central drop on skirt
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**_Bombé Desk & bookcase_**
Bombé Desk & bookcase George bright Boston 1770-90 Chippendale large claw feet carving on kneebrackats glass doors utn & flame finials carved dependencies scewed into the scrolls of the pediment
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Desk & bookcase
Desk & bookcase John Townsend Newport 1755-70 claw and ball feet only on front flat plaques bleow cornice shel och block front
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**_Bombé chest on chest_**
Bombé chest on chest **_John Cogswell_** Boston 1782
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High Chest
High Chest Eliphlet Chapin Connecticut 1780-90 Chippendale
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Bureau, dressing table
Bureau, dressing table NYC 1760 queen anne square claw and ball feet block front
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Chest on chest
Chest on chest Samuel Prince NYC 1770-75 Blocky/square claw and ball feet gadrooning on bottom Wider and larger in scale
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Desk and bookcase
Desk and bookcase NYC 1750 Chippendale carving henry hardcaste gadrooning
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Card table
Card table NYC 1760-70 gadrooning
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Side chair
Side chair NYC 1760-75
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Side chair
Side chair Philladelphia 1740-60 broad deep beak
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**_High Chest_**
High Chest Joseph Claypole 1743 carcved fanned ressed shells closed pediment
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**_High Chest_**
High Chest Clifton and Charteret Philladelphia 1753 shell carving deep carving on knees - typical philladelphia pierced finial
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Dressingtable
Dressingtable Philladelphia 1760-70 deep carving fable carving in centre
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High chest
High chest Garvan carver Philladelphia 1760-80
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Pompadour high chest
Pompadour high chest philladelphia 1760 central finial bust from chippendale catalogue
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Side chair
Side chair Philladelphia 1760-75 deep carving squshed tomato claw and ball
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Side chair
Side chair Philladelphia 1755 acantus leaf on knees shell on skirt
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Marble slab table
Marble slab table Philladelphia ca1765 carving Martin Jugiez pireced carving
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Tilt top tea table
Tilt top rea table Philladelphia 1760 scalloped edge attention on legs and peditol
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Tea table
Tea table Charles Honore Lannuier NYC 1817 empire
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Sideboard
Sideboard NYC 1790-1810 Federal
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Cupboard
Cupborad Mason Messenger, Boston 1680-1700 more high style, little less ornametns
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High Chest
Philladelphia 1690-1730 William & Mary separated drawers skirt mirros strechers
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Cane back chair
Boston 1690-1730 higher back high style with cane
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Banister back
Regional Mass. 1690-1730 William & Mary carved crest rail ring and ball stretcher trifoot feet
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Block front Desk
Boston block front 1760s knee hole Georgian/late queen anne

American Decorative Arts 1650-1860 (2 decks)

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