Armchair

Furniture

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Armchair

Entry/Object ID

PM.65.815

Description

Broad arm chair, "ladder-back" type, with leather seat: ball finials, atop spools, on stiles alternately turned round and in form of flattened ball; between stiles, three slats, the two top bow-shaped with central rectangular projection, the bottom arched; down-curved arms; tooled leather seat (an old replacement of a rush seat); arm supports, in vase-turnings, extensions of front legs, turned as stiles, and like them, terminating in half-ball feet; round-turned stretchers, two at each side, one at rear; two front stretchers sausage-turned.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1700 - 1733 Date made: r. 1700 - 1733

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

PCR 1029

# 215

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

42 in

Width

25-1/2 in

Depth

18 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 42 x 25 1/2 x 18 in. (106.7 x 64.8 x 45.7 cm)

Material

Maple, ash, oak, Leather

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Finish is crackling throughout chair; seat is brittle and warped especially along edges; 1/2" x 1/4" gouge on proper right side of front wooden edge of seat; bottom front stretcher is slightly worn; proper left front leg has large chip on turning just above foot that has been repaired, two large vertical cracks on foot and flattened ball turning near bottom stretcher, large turning next to top sausage-shaped stretcher has several deep cracks; proper left front arm support has 2 1/2" vertical crack in front; top of proper left chair arm has 2 1/2" x 5/8" repair and several deep cracks throughout including front of arm; proper right arm has 6" deep crack on top and around front of arm; several deep cracks on proper right front leg and arm support; proper right foot of back leg has large piece missing; small cracks on back stiles, proper left stile is worn on area below finial; 1/2" x 1/4" gouge on bottom center edge of top slat back in front; 1/4" x 1/2" gouge where proper left arm meets left back stile.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Unknown

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Wood identified as "hickory 1660-1680" in microscopic analysis at Winterthur Museum 1978 via Neil Kamil [handwritten notes found in Kate's old files, 3/2013 by Jessa J. Krick].

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Philipsburg Manor, Office