Name/Title
Joe Quintero's Rug weaving Eastlake Swivel Desk Chair, 1880sEntry/Object ID
1981.96.1Description
Acc. No. 81.96.1
Subject Category: Business (Alameda Rug.Co.)
Date or period: 1880's
Subject: Desk chair
Description: It is a Victorian Eastlake Style desk chair. It is a swivel walnut desk chair, with arms. It has hand caning on seat and back. It has incised carving on the back and it sits on four-legged tripod base, which has incised carving. It has an iron mechanism to adjust height. This mechanism is patented June 4, 1875.
Size: The seat surface is 18½ by 20 inches. The back is 17½ high by 17 inches wide. From the top of the chair back to the base it is 35½".
History of Object: This desk chair was used for forty years by Mr. Joe Quintero, who sat in it while weaving carpets and rugs on a hand loom. About 1900 he worked for the Alameda Rug Works. Mr. Osterdock owned the business.
Acquired from : Mrs. Mary E. Osterdock
Date: April, 1954Interpretative Labels
Label
1/27/2024 MvL: handwritten on tag:
‘ CHAIR, SWIVEL - OFFICE
HISTORY: OFFICE CHAIR USED AT ALAMEDA RUG WORKS
EVERETT ST’
