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Georgian America (Week 3) Flashcards

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Late Baroque/Queen Anne Characteristics

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emphasis on line and form over ornament

sculptural objects, playing off voids against solids

Hogarth’s Line of Beauty - S curve

cabriole legs, pad feet, vase-shaped splats, blockfront facades, ocassional shells and inlay

Japanning

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Jacob Hurd

Two Handled Cup

Boston

1740s

monumental form, also called Grace Cup

coat of arms

mid-band, no ornament

exemplifies Queen Anne - stately, solid, tall, sculptural

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High Chest of Drawers

Boston

1750 - 1770

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Table

Boston

1750 - 1770

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Armchair

Massachusetts

1740 - 1760

walnut, maple

turners, stretchers

central baluster splat

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Chair

Boston

1740-1760

vase shaped splat

cabriole legs

stretchers, turners

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Rococo Date & Characteristics

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1755 - 1795

profusion of ornament especially carving on furniture and chasing/repousse on silver

motifs: c-scrolls, leafage, chinese fretwork, shells

asymmetry valued

pierced decoration on both furniture and silver

mahogany

claw and ball feet

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Paul Revere

Sugar Bowl and Creamer

Boston

1760s

c-scrolls, flowers all over ornamentation

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Side Chair

Boston

1760-1780

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Bombe Desk and Bookcase

Boston

1770-1790

George Bright

bombe form, glass, eagle finial, pierced carving in cornice at end of rosettes, claw and ball feet

mahogany

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Bombe Chest on Chest

John Cogswell

Boston

1780

s-crolls, carving, chinese fretwork, rosettes

signed and dated important piece documents bombe form

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Desk and Bookcase

Newpot

1755 - 1770

Block and shell front

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High Chest of Drawers

Eliphalet Chapin

Windsor Connecticut

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Bureau Dressing Table

New York

1760

massive, stocky proportions

square claw and ball

knee hole

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Desk and Bookcase

Carving attributed to Henry Hardcastle

New York

1750

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Card Table

New York

1760-1770

mahogany

gadrooning, carving on knee, 5 legs

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Side Chair

New York

1760-1775

diamond pierced splat, shells on knees

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Dressing Table

Boston

1745-1760

walnut

flat and round blockade front

small claw and ball feet, cabriole legs

drop pendants

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New York Silversmiths

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Peter Van Dyck

Simeon Soumaine

Myer Myers

Daniel Christian Fueter

John Moulinar

John Burt Lyng

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Peter Van Dyck

Teapot

New York

1720 - 1740

Queen Anne/Early Baroque

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Bread Basket

Daniel Christian Fueter

New York

1765

pierced ornamentation, scroll feet, female figure heads

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High Chest

Attributed Joseph or Josiah Claypoole

Philadelphia

1743

distinctive pediment

mahoganry

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High Chest

Clifton and Carteret

Philadelphia

1753

elaborate carving, shell, pierced finial

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Side Table

Philadelphia

1760-1770

mahoganry

elaborate carving, swan, 2 handled urn

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High Chest

att. Garvan Carver

Philadelphia

1760-1780

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John Coburn

Coffee Pot

Boston

molded foot, decorative spout, bell shaped finial

high style, Queen Anne

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Pompadour High Chest

Philadelphia

1760s

Madame Pompadour for center finial

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Philadelphia Carvers & Cabinetmakers

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Samuel Harding

Nicolas Bernard

MArtin Jugiez

Hercules Courtenay

James Reynolds

“Garvan” Carver

“Spike” Carver

Benjamin Randolph

Thomas Affleck

Henry Clifton & Thomas Carteret

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Side Chair

Philadelphia

1760-1775

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Card Table

Boston

1730-1760

mahogany

orginal needlework top

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Sideboard Table

Carving attributed to Martin Jugiez

Philadelphia

1765

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Tilt-top Tea Table

Philadelphia

1760s

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Jacob Hurd

Teapot

1720-1730

pear shaped

coat of arms

symmetrical

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Tea Kettle on Stand

Joseph Richardson

Philadelphia

1745-1754

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Joseph Richardson

Snuffbox

Philadelphia

1750-1770

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Coffee Pot

Richard Humphreys

Philadelphia

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Fruit Basket

American China Manufactory of Bonnin and Morris

Philadelphia

Soft-Paste Porcelain

1771-1772

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Pewter Flagon

William Will

Philadelphia

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Paul Revere

Coffee Pot

1760s

3 legs, shell feet

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High Chest

Boston

1780s

block front form, restrained rococo - carved shell in upper case

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Desk and Bookcase

carving attributed to John Welch

Boston

1750-1755

mahogany

elaborate carving details - feet, front skirt, finial

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Rhode Island Maker & Characteristics

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Goddard-Townsend Families

John & Thomas Townsend - father son

block and shell facade

open talons

raised, flat plaques in panels

venture cargo

Newport & Providence

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Bureau Table (knee hole desk)

Edmond Townsend

Newport, RI

Block-fronted with shells, lobed, semi-circular

raised and recessed elements

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High Chest

John Townsend

late 1750s

open talons, pad feet on back

flat, raised plaques in typaneum

open pediment with tight scrolls

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Easy Chair with original upholster

Boston

1760s

Decorative Arts 1650 - 1850 (8 decks)

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