Candlestand
Classification:
Date:
1760-1790
Medium:
Mahogany
Dimensions:
Overall: 27 x 18 3/8 x 20 in. ( 68.6 x 46.7 x 50.8 cm )
Description:
Chippendale style candlestand with circular top on tripod pedestal base consisting of ring-and-vase-turned column supported on serpentine legs with snake feet.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Richard Gosman
Object Number:
1946.308
Gallery Label:
This candlestand belonged to Andrew Brogaw, who resided on Middleburgh Avenue in Long Island City during the Revolutionary War. According to the donor, a dent was made in the top of the table by the scabbard of a British officer when the house was occupied by Hessian troops around 1780. The tabletop, however, is a modern replacement, as are the legs of the tripod. The central column appears to be original.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
26703
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Footstool
Classification:
Date:
1810-1820
Medium:
Mahogany, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 x 23 x 16 1/4 in. ( 45.7 x 58.4 x 41.3 cm )
Description:
Mahogany Empire footstool; rectangular curule form with top upholstered with rose damask; X-shaped supports have scrolled ends and are joined by a vase-and-ring-turned stretcher.
Object Number:
Z.909
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
26671
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Side chairs (2)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1855-1860
Medium:
Rosewood, textile
Dimensions:
each: 33 3/4 x 17 1/2 x 16 in. ( 85.7 x 44.4 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Oval-back side chairs with floral marquetry inlaid, laminated back; round seat with oval inlay on seat rail, slightly cabrioled front legs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. George W. Cane
Object Number:
1952.88ad
Gallery Label:
According to the donor, this chair and its mate were used in the New York City home of her parents. A similar chair is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum (1990.197).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
26660
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Side chair
Classification:
Date:
l815-1835
Medium:
Mahogany, oak, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 1/4 x 19 x 20 in. ( 81.9 x 48.3 x 50.8 cm )
Description:
Mahogany Federal klismos style side chair; scroll back with slightly contoured crotch-figured crest rail, reeded stiles curving into side seat rails, and pierced horizontal splat centering a carved roundel; trapezoidal slip seat with blue-black textile upholstery; molded saber front legs and swept back rear legs.
Object Number:
INV.14950
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
26657
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Side chairs (2)
Classification:
Date:
1820-1830
Medium:
Mahogany
Dimensions:
overall: 33 1/2 x 19 x 20 in.
Description:
Pair of mahogany neoclassical klismos-style side chairs; scroll back with scrolled tablet-shaped crest rail with horizontal veneered splat below; trapazoidal slip seat with caned seat below (upholstry and caning modern); saber front legs with raked rear legs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Estelle de Peyster Hosmer
Object Number:
1945.123ab
Gallery Label:
Belonged to Frederic de Peyster (1790-1882), 76 University Place, New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
26656
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1 of set of 6 Side Chairs
Classification:
Date:
1770-1790
Medium:
Cherry, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 1/4 x 20 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. ( 97.2 x 51.4 x 47 cm )
Description:
Cherry Chippendale side chair; back with double serpentine crest rail with scrolled ears and pierced splat with interlace design; trapezoidal seat upholstered over the rail with red silk damask which is tacked with metal tacks to seat rail; straight, reeded front legs, curved back legs, and rectangular side and medial stretchers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin M. Norman
Object Number:
1870.6a
Gallery Label:
The donor's husband received the set of six chairs from his sister-in-law, a granddaughter of Israel Putnam (1718-1790). As major-general in the Continental Army, Putnam played an important part in the battle of Bunker Hill. The set of chairs was used in the Board Room of the Historical Society's Second Avenue Building during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
26645
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1 of set of 6 Side Chairs
Classification:
Date:
1770-1790
Medium:
Cherry, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 38 1/4 x 20 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. ( 97.2 x 51.4 x 47 cm )
Description:
Cherry Chippendale side chair; back with double serpentine crest rail with scrolled ears and pierced splat with interlace design; trapezoidal seat upholstered over the rail with red silk damask which is tacked with metal tacks to seat rail; straight, reeded front legs, curved back legs, and rectangular side and medial stretchers.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin M. Norman
Object Number:
1870.6c
Gallery Label:
The donor's husband received the set of six chairs from his sister-in-law, a granddaughter of Israel Putnam (1718-1790). As major-general in the Continental Army, Putnam played an important part in the battle of Bunker Hill. The set of chairs was used in the Board Room of the Historical Society's Second Avenue Building during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
26643
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Children's side chairs (2)
Classification:
Date:
1854
Medium:
Poplar, caning, paint
Dimensions:
each: 23 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 14 in. ( 59.7 x 34.3 x 35.6 cm )
Description:
Pair of children's poplar side chairs with brown paint; back with curved crest rail and a single shaped slat; roughly trapezoidal caned seat with concave side rails and serpentine front rail; outswept legs that taper toward bottom joined by concave, rectangular front stretcher, two plain, round stretchers at either side, and one plain, round stretcher in back.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Florence Rogers Dietrich
Object Number:
1944.64a-b
Gallery Label:
An inscription on 1944.64a indicates that these chairs were made in 1854 for twin boys, James and John Jenkins.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1854
eMuseum Object ID:
26612
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Side chair
Classification:
Date:
1762-1780
Medium:
Mahogany; pine
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 1/4 x 21 x 22 in. ( 92.1 x 53.3 x 55.9 cm )
Description:
Mahogany Chippendale side chair; serpentine crest rail with ears, pierced splat composed of elongated c-scrolls with ribbed carving, centering a carved rosette; trapezoidal slip seat; cabriole front legs with ball and claw feet, chamfered rear legs, and turned side and medial stretchers.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number:
1963.95b
Gallery Label:
This design is derived from plate XVI of Chippendale's Director of 1762. A chair with this splat pattern appears in Copley's Portrait of Joseph Hooper, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1780
eMuseum Object ID:
26596
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Side chairs (2)
Classification:
Date:
1760-1790
Medium:
Mahogany, pine, textile
Dimensions:
each: 38 1/2 x 23 x 20 1/2 in. ( 97.8 x 58.4 x 52.1 cm )
Description:
Two mahogany Chippendale side chairs with gently arched crest rail with ears and beads on upper edge, pierced splat with Gothic design, trapezoidal slip seat with textile upholstery, cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet in front, and rounded legs in rear.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis
Object Number:
1957.2a-b
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1790
eMuseum Object ID:
26593
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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