Table frame
Classification:
Date:
1860-1900
Medium:
Mahogany
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 37 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. ( 71.1 x 95.2 x 54.6 cm )
Description:
Rectangular mahogany Chippendale-style table with marble top; apron carved and parcel-gilded with a tassel motif; cabriole legs with carved knees terminating in parcel-gilded ball-and-claw feet; white marble tabletop with notched edge.
Credit Line:
Bequest of A. E. Gallatin
Object Number:
1952.399
Gallery Label:
The side rails of this table are dowelled together, suggesting that it may be a late nineteenth-century reproduction in the earlier Chippendale style.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
18003
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Settee
Classification:
Date:
1850-1860
Medium:
Rosewood, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 41 x 55 x 37 in. ( 104.1 x 139.7 x 94 cm )
Description:
Rosewood Rococo Revival settee with light olive green velvet upholstery (not original); crest rail with triangular flower and scroll composition at center carved in high relief; molded open arms; molded seat rail with floral carving at center of front rail; front cabriole legs with floral carving on knees and casters; rounded rear legs with serpentine profile.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Donald C. Platten
Object Number:
1983.19a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
17952
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Looking glass
Classification:
Date:
1770-1900
Medium:
Mahogany veneer, pine, glass, gilding
Dimensions:
Overall: 31 x 17 5/8 x 1 in. ( 78.7 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Rectangular Chippendale looking glass with mahogany veneer frame; ornately shaped crest with arched center and scrolls on either side; mirror plate surrounded by molded border with gilding; intricately shaped triangular base with a projecting scroll at each corner.
Credit Line:
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number:
1947.480
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this looking glass once belonged to miniature painter John Ramage (1748-1802).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17949
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1 of a set of 6 Side chairs
Classification:
Date:
1890-1900
Medium:
Mahogany, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 17 x 17 in. ( 86.4 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm )
Description:
Mahogany Federal style side chair; square, arcaded back with carved tablet centered in top rail and four slender, square colonettes with carved palm-leaf spandrels; trapezoidal seat upholstered over the rail with zig-zag patterned textile; square, tapering front legs with spade feet and slighly back swept rear legs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Benny Goodman
Object Number:
1978.61e
Gallery Label:
This Federal style chair is a reproduction in the manner of Abraham Slover and Jacob B. Taylor, cabinetmakers active in New York in the early nineteenth century. The New York cabinetmaking firm of Sypher and Company, active in the late nineteenth century, made chairs after this pattern.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17948
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pedestal
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Marble
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 x 10 1/4 in. ( 106.7 x 26 cm )
Description:
Green marble composition, white paint.
Object Number:
INV.15020
Marks:
inscriptions: None.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
17938
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Pedestal
Classification:
Date:
late 19th century?
Medium:
alabaster?
Dimensions:
Overall: 42 x 12 7/8 x 12 7/8 in. ( 106.7 x 32.7 x 32.7 cm )
Description:
Pale green polished stone with two gilded decorative bands.
Object Number:
INV.15021
Marks:
inscriptions: None.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17937
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Mirror
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Cast iron, paint, glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 in. ( 49.5 x 36.8 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Vertical oval mirror with black-painted cast iron frame with ivy and berry motif.
Object Number:
INV.1333
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
17928
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
1 of set of 6 Side Chairs
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1843
Medium:
Mahogany, oak, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 19 in. ( 82.6 x 47 x 48.3 cm )
Description:
Figured mahogany gondola side chair; back with crest rail curving into angled stiles and urn-shaped splat; U-shaped slip seat with textile upholstery (not original) on four shaped supports; saber front legs and back swept rear legs.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Florence Rogers Dietrich
Object Number:
1944.325b
Marks:
stamped: on top of front seat rail: "XXII"
printed: on cloth label attached to underside of slip seat: "DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG / . . . / This article contains the same / material received from the owner, / to which has been added / 1/4 lb. COTTON XII / .
Gallery Label:
The gondola chair was a new form introduced to the United States from France in the mid-nineteenth century. Its style was based on that of French Restoration period furniture. This chair belonged to a set made for the donor's grandmother, who lived at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street in New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1843
eMuseum Object ID:
17927
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dressing glass
Classification:
Date:
1800-1840
Medium:
Mahogany, glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 9 x 5 in. ( 22.9 x 22.9 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Mahogany dressing glass; circular mirror with molded frame swivel-mounted between turned uprights with turned cross member and feet.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Josephine A. Rohrer
Object Number:
1952.333
Gallery Label:
According to accession records, this dressing glass was used as a shaving mirror by the donor's grandfather's uncle, George Haight (d. 1849). George Haight was a merchant who lived at the Haight home at 152 Broadway, New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
17899
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Looking glass
Classification:
Date:
1790-1815
Medium:
Wood, glass, paint, gesso, gilding
Dimensions:
Overall: 55 1/2 x 24 x 5 5/8 in. ( 141 x 61 x 14.3 cm )
Description:
Pillar looking glass with gilded double frame; overhanging indented cornice with 19 gilded balls suspended from underside above grayish white frieze with applied gilded ornaments; verre églomisé panel, which is set between brackets with applied decoration, depicting rustic landscape in half-circular frame, with leaf sprays in spandrel corners; pillars with spool-like capital and bundled shaft, and bases resting on blocks framing molding at base of mirror.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Reginald P. Rose, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Harry Horton Benkard
Object Number:
1976.42
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1815
eMuseum Object ID:
17895
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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