17th Century (Week 1)

Question 1

Mannerist/ Late Renaissance

Answer 1

1650 - 1720

Pilgrim Century, 1st Period

architectural qualities

massive feel, short broad proportions

color

Maniera = carved and applied strapwork, artificiatlity

Question 2

Boston settlement

Answer 2

Settled by John Winthrop in 1630

“City upon a hill”

international trade, markets, major port to England

flourishing craft system - silversmiths, cabinet makers, upholstery

Question 3

17th Century Case Forms

Answer 3

Box

Chest

Chest with one or two drawers

Cupboards

Cabinets

Chest of drawers

Question 4

17th Century Tables & Seating Furniture

Answer 4

Trestle tables

Draw tables

Wainscot Chairs

Turned Chairs

Leather Cheairs

Upholstered chairs

Forms

Joint Stools

Question 5

17th Century Shop Traditions

Answer 5

Ralph Mason-Henry Messinger-Thomas Edsall (Boston)

William Searle/Thomas Dennis (Ipswich, MA)

Symonds (Salem, MA)

John Thurston, Dedham (Medfield)

Ephraim Tinkham II (Plymouth)

John Taylor and Harvard College joinery (Cambridge)

Emery shops (Newbury)

Peter Blin (Wethersfield)

Question 6

Chest Terms

Answer 6

Question 7

Chair Terms

Answer 7

Question 8

Chest of drawers terms

Answer 8

Question 9

Answer 9

1650 - 1710

New Endland (Dedham, MA)

Joined Chest attributed to John Thurston

no drawer

3 free floating panels

lightly carved, frame and panel construction

Question 10

Answer 10

not wide

framed support network with long feet

2 boards rest on trestles

only 3 surviving exampls

Question 11

Answer 11

Leather Chair, late 1600s

original leather upholstery

Question 12

Answer 12

Wainscot Chair

1690

Essex County, MA

2 horizontal panels

Question 13

Answer 13

Green upholstery Chair

Boston (other example Salem)

late 1600s

Question 14

Answer 14

Cupboard

Norther Essex County, MA (Newberry)

1670-1690

Maple

applied ornament style - spindles, moldings, bosses painted black (resemble ebony), columns, carving

Status symbol of wealth, displayed silver & other objects

Question 15

Answer 15

Box

New England

1680 - 1690

Question 16

Answer 16

Mason-Messinger-Edsall Shop

Boston

1650-1660

spindles, large border

flat top to display okects

Question 17

Answer 17

Wainscot Chair

New England

1690

Question 18

Answer 18

Turned Chair

Massachusetts

1680 - 1695

Question 19

Answer 19

Searle Chest

attributed Thomas Dennis & William Searle

Ipswich, Massahusetts

1670-1690

Question 20

Answer 20

Cupboard

Virginia

1650 - 1710

bosses, turned columns

architectural

Question 21

17th Century Silver

Where did silver come from?

Techniques?

Answer 21

foreign coins, old/out of style/damaged objects

Techiques: raising, chasing, soldering, casting

Question 22

Boston Silversmiths

Answer 22

John Hull and Robert Sanderson (Hull & Sanderson) 1652

Jeremiah Dummer - 1st native born American silversmiht

John Coney - new forms, stylish, ahead of curve

Edward Winslow

John Noyes

Timothy Dwight

Question 23

Answer 23

Wine Cup

Hull and Sanderson

Boston

1650 -1670

balustrer stem

church silver domestic form

Question 24

Answer 24

Candlesticks

Jeremiah Dummer

Boston

1686

Question 25

Answer 25

Caudle Cup, 2-handled cup

John Coney

1690 - 1700

Boston

hammering on surface, mannerist motifs, caryatid heads on handles

Question 26

Answer 26

Mason, Messinger, Edsall

Chest of Drawers with Door

1650-1670

snake wood, maple, oak (carcass)

architectural ornament

Question 27

Answer 27

Cabinet

Symonds Shop

Salem, MA

1660-1680

helped organize the home

kept small valuables

Question 29

Answer 29

Mary Pease Chest

1690-1710

Red and Black paint

frame and panel construction (mortise & tendon)