Drayton Chair

Object/Artifact

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Drayton Chair

Drayton Chair

Name/Title

Drayton Chair

Entry/Object ID

62.3.9

Description

GIFTED TO DRAYTON HALL SEPT 15, 2016 Sidechair England?? 1740/1760 Mahogany Chippendale Style Mahogany Side Chair with Detachable Seat. Chair Has Open Carved Splat and Carved Back. Front Cabriole Legs and Apron and Elaborately Carved with Claw Feet. On back of seat frame, visible when cushion is removed, written in white ink, OWNED BY BLAKE MIDDLETON, with Mason sign(?) 54.244 3/2/2005: revision to description A highly carved rococo side chair with cabriole front legs, carved pierced splat, slip seat, scrolled knee responds, hairy paw feet and pinned mortise and tenon joinery at the seat rails. The chair has surviving triangular glue blocks secured with rose head nails at both front and back of the seat frame. The back splat is tenoned to an integral shoe. Seat rails are the full depth of the leg stiles.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Collection

Acquisition

Accession

62.3.9

Source or Donor

Middleton, Mr. J. Blake

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

History of Original Use At Drayton Hall

Made/Created

Date made

1740 - 1760

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Chair

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Seating Furniture

Nomenclature Class

Furniture

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

Search Terms

Drayton Hall (S.C.)

Location

Location

Room

303

Building

Nathaniel Russell House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Middleton, Blake

Person or Organization

Drayton, John

Related Publications

Notes

In Pursuit of Refinement, pg. 247-248

Provenance

Notes

Descended in the Drayton Family through the Blake and Middleton line. Given by Mr. J. Blake Middleton.

General Notes

Note

Notes: From (book): Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. "The regional arts of the early South: a sampling from the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts"/John Bivins and Forsyth Alexader. Copyright 1991 by Old Salem. (similar piece p.91): The MESDA side chair is one of only two known Charleston-mae Rococo side chairs with cabriole legs and claw feet. The lack of such chairs, and the profusion of chairs in the Chinese taste--that is, with straight, or Marlborough, legs--very likely indicates that Charlestonians had embraced the more linear style at much the same time as it became fashionable in London in the 1740s. The splat of this chair is a modification of a design famililar all among the east coast. Status: OK Location Details1: 1 Account: 172008 Book Value: 15000 User10: 172008

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

February 23, 1998

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023