| Plate IV. The original red paint of the
kitchen is preserved under the present coat of matching color. The ceiling was originally
plastered. The pine settle from western Massachusetts, c. 1800, has never been
painted. The table, a single piece of pine on a maple and oak frame, was probably
made in Connecticut in the late seventeenth century. On it is a pair of
seventeenth-century Dutch pewter candlesticks. The black-painted banister back armchair in
the foreground was made in Hartford in the mid-eighteenth century. The brown painted
example at the end of the table is of the same date but was made in Guilford or
Wallingford. The sidechair against the wall, from New Hampshire, c. 1750, retains its
original black paint. The grain barrel at the right of the fireplace was hewn from a
single log. It comes from Staten Island, New York, and the date 1844 is incised on it near
the top edge. The wrought-iron grill hanging at the left of the fireplace may have
belonged to Philo Beardsley. |
