| Figure 1. The easy chair shown in this view of the
parlor is upholstered with the same wool damask as the armchair shown in Pl. II. The
cherry candlestand is unusual for the scalloping underneath the dish top. It was
probably made in Norwich, Connecticut, c. 1790. (An identical example, apparently by the
same maker and similarly warped, is in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur
Museum.). The brass candlestick on the candlestand is English, c.1720. The maple
side chair, one of a pair, is from Rhode Island, c. 1750. The eighteenth-century
mahogany drop-leaf table is attributed to the Townsend-Goddard school of cabinetmakers of
Newport, Rhode Island. The Chinese porcelain candlesticks are polychromed in famille
verte colors and date from the K'ang Hsi period. The mezzotint of GeorgeWashington by
Valentine Green (1739-1813), done in London in 1785, is in an eighteenth-century black and
gilt frame. The portrait of a parson by an unknown artist is the pendant to the one of his
wife shown in Pl. II. |
