Armchair

Furniture

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Armchair

Entry/Object ID

VC.58.302

Description

Chair, arm: banister-back; cresting rail upper edge arched and shaped in cyma curves, with patera carved in each resulting arch; crest set between vase-turned stiles, topped with knobbed globular finials; 5 baluster-shaped banisters set between crest and cross-rail, which is shaped as cresting rail in reverse; rails tenoned into stiles; rush seat; arms, curved, terminate in shaped rolled ends; arms supported by vase-turned upper portions of turned front legs; single round stretcher each side and rear; front stretcher turned in thin vase forms.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1700 - 1725 Date made: r. 1700 - 1725

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

44-3/8 in

Width

22 in

Depth

24-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 44 3/8 x 22 x 24 1/2 in. (112.7 x 55.9 x 62.2 cm)

Material

rush, Maple

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Details of condition: Filled round areas in front legs indicate site of missing stretchers; legs worn down beyond feet; 4th banister replaced; etc.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Unknown

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Wood identified as acer rubrum or red maple 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, Van Cortlandt Complex, Ferry House - Free Blacks' Chamber/SE