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Final study Furniture Flashcards

1
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Federal

eagles - urns - columns

Society

Forms

Objects

A
  • 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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21
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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

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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

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Pier table

Charles Honore Launier

NYC

1815-19

Trained in France

ornamental, gold

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Lyre, Side Chair

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Lyre, side chair

Duncan Phyfe

NYC

1810-20

carved wire back

babered legs

hairy ancles and paw feet

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Secretary

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Secretary - cylinder desk and book case

Duncan Phyfe

NYC

1815-20

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Dining table

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Dining table - extension

Briggs

1843-45

Revival - innovtion

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Desk and bookcase

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Desk and bookcase

NYC

1836-55

Gothic revival

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Center table

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Center table

NYC

1850

gothic revival

gothic apron

columnar legs

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Library chair

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Library chair & staircase

Boston

1860

Rococo revival & innovation

convertible

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Center table

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Center table

Boston

1847-59

Rococo revival

turtle shaped marble top

centertable to walk around

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Card Table

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Card Table

Charles Baudoine

NYC

1850-55

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Sofa

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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

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Pier console table

John Henry Belter

NYC

1850-60

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Slipper chair

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Slipper chair

John Henry Belter

NYC

1854-67

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Sideboard

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Sideboard

Iganatiuz Lutz

Philladelphia

1850-60

death in the dining room

man concuring nature

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Bed hanging

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Bed hanging

Mary Bulman

Maine

40
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High Chest

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High chest

Connecticut

1770-90

cherry

Hold on to earlier style

shell not as elaborate and incorporated to the rest of the design

41
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Chest on chest

A

chest on chest

Connecticut

1760-80

tiger maple

rural

42
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chest on chest on frame

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chest on chest on frame

Samuel Dunlap

New Hampshire

1790-95

old technique

43
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German Dower Chest

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German Dower Chest

Eastern Pensylvania

1780

most of them are from last half of 18th C

44
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Secretary - rural

A

Secretary

Thomas Day (was a free black)

North Carolina

1841

45
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Desk & Bookcase

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Desk & Bookcase

John Shearer

Virginia

1800-16

desk 1801, bookcase 1806

46
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Mannerism

A

1650-1720

47
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Early Baroque/William & Mary

A

1690-1730

48
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Late Baroque / Queen Anne

A

1730-1760

49
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Rococo / Chippendale

A

1750-95

50
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Neoclassical / Federal

A

1790-1820

51
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Late Neoclassical / Empire / Greek revival

A

1815-1830

52
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Revival Styles / Gothic / Rococo

A

1835-1860

53
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Box

A

Box

New England

1680-90

54
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Joined chest

A

Joined chest

Regional Massachusets

1680-90

frame and panel construction, mortis & tennon

mortis & tenon

lunetts with flowers and levaves

55
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Chest of Drawers

A

Chest of Drawers

Mason Messinger

Boston

1650-60

56
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Cupboard

A

Cupboard

Massachusets

1680

painted black maple turnings

applied boss (round dots)

strpwork in middle

57
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Wainscoat chair

A

Wainscoat chair

1680-1700

58
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Turned chair

A

Turned chair

Massachusettes

1680-1700

59
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Leather back chair

A

Leather back chair

late 17th C

60
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Chest

A

Chest

Ipswich, Mass

flat low relief carving

tree of life

brackets with initials

joint chest, 6 board chest

61
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Cupboard

A

Cupboard

Virginia

late 17th C

62
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High chest of drawers

A

High chest of drawers

Boston

1690-1720

William and Mary

turned legs

burl wood

veneers

shape of skirt echoes stretchers

dovetail joints

continous drawers

63
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Escritoire

A

Escritoire

Boston

1720s

secret compartments

64
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Japaned High chest

A

Japaned High chest

William & Mary

Boston

1730s

65
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Banister back armchair

A

Banister back armchair

Boston

1720

William & Mary

66
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Table

A

Table

Boston

ca1730

67
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High chest of drawers

A

High chest of drawers

Boston

Queen Anne

scroll top

pad feet

fluted canters pilasters on corners

carbreol legs

68
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Chair queen anne

A

Chair queen anne

Boston

1730s

curvilinear/spindle stretchers

trapazoidal seat

pad feet

69
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Side Chair

A

Side Chair

Nathaniel Gould

Boston

ca1760

thin seat

claws pointing back

70
Q

Bombé Desk & bookcase

A

Bombé Desk & bookcase

Boston

ca1760s

plane kneebrackets

central drop on skirt

71
Q

Bombé Desk & bookcase

A

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

72
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Desk & bookcase

A

Desk & bookcase

John Townsend

Newport

1755-70

claw and ball feet only on front

flat plaques bleow cornice

shel och block front

73
Q

Bombé chest on chest

A

Bombé chest on chest

John Cogswell

Boston

1782

74
Q

High Chest

A

High Chest

Eliphlet Chapin

Connecticut

1780-90

Chippendale

75
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Bureau, dressing table

A

Bureau, dressing table

NYC

1760

queen anne

square claw and ball feet

block front

76
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Chest on chest

A

Chest on chest

Samuel Prince

NYC

1770-75

Blocky/square claw and ball feet

gadrooning on bottom

Wider and larger in scale

77
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Desk and bookcase

A

Desk and bookcase

NYC

1750

Chippendale

carving henry hardcaste

gadrooning

78
Q

Card table

A

Card table

NYC

1760-70

gadrooning

79
Q

Side chair

A

Side chair

NYC

1760-75

80
Q

Side chair

A

Side chair

Philladelphia

1740-60

broad

deep beak

81
Q

High Chest

A

High Chest

Joseph Claypole

1743

carcved fanned ressed shells

closed pediment

82
Q

High Chest

A

High Chest

Clifton and Charteret

Philladelphia

1753

shell carving

deep carving on knees - typical philladelphia

pierced finial

83
Q

Dressingtable

A

Dressingtable

Philladelphia

1760-70

deep carving

fable carving in centre

84
Q

High chest

A

High chest

Garvan carver

Philladelphia

1760-80

85
Q

Pompadour high chest

A

Pompadour high chest

philladelphia

1760

central finial bust

from chippendale catalogue

86
Q

Side chair

A

Side chair

Philladelphia

1760-75

deep carving

squshed tomato claw and ball

87
Q

Side chair

A

Side chair

Philladelphia

1755

acantus leaf on knees

shell on skirt

88
Q

Marble slab table

A

Marble slab table

Philladelphia

ca1765

carving Martin Jugiez

pireced carving

89
Q

Tilt top tea table

A

Tilt top rea table

Philladelphia

1760

scalloped edge

attention on legs and peditol

90
Q

Tea table

A

Tea table

Charles Honore Lannuier

NYC

1817

empire

91
Q

Sideboard

A

Sideboard

NYC

1790-1810

Federal

92
Q

Cupboard

A

Cupborad

Mason Messenger,

Boston

1680-1700

more high style, little less ornametns

93
Q

High Chest

A

Philladelphia

1690-1730

William & Mary

separated drawers

skirt mirros strechers

94
Q

Cane back chair

A

Boston

1690-1730

higher back

high style with cane

95
Q

Banister back

A

Regional Mass.

1690-1730

William & Mary

carved crest rail

ring and ball stretcher

trifoot feet

96
Q

Block front Desk

A

Boston

block front 1760s

knee hole

Georgian/late queen anne

American Decorative Arts 1650-1860 (2 decks)

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