Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 1925.014
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Date:
- 1685-1710
- Description:
- Side Chair. Cane-back, with crest rail carved, and pierced with C-scrolls, framed between elaborately turned stiles having vase, block, ring, ball, and reel elements; finials with ball and button above cup turnings. Tall, rectangular, cane back panel bordered at sides by stiles carved and pierced with Flemish scrolls and C-scrolls, and extending from crest rail to lower horizontal rail, which is 4" above cane seat and carved with two horizontal Flemish scrolls. Vase-turned section at top of front legs with modification of Flemish scroll below. Block, ring, and baluster turned rear legs. Flat front stretcher pierced carved with C-scrolls but differing in design from crest rail. Four turned stretchers--side stretchers with vase, ball, ring and block elements; back and medial stretchers vase-and-ring turned with central ball and squared ends. Half round molding on outer edge of front and side seat rails. "DS" stamped twice on reverse of right back stile. Roman numeral "V" incised on bottom of front seat rail, on reverse of right back stile, on back of front right leg, and on bottom of left stretcher. Silver name plate on back of seat "Alma H. Stone". Black paint, much worn. Legs cut. Seat probably recaned, but is torn along front and left edge. Chair extensively split and cracked, especially vertical members.
- Material:
- Wood
Grass - Dimensions:
- H-47.4 W-18.5 D-20.6 inches
- Provenance:
- Given in memory of donor's wife, Alma H. (Putnam) Stone. According to donor, the chair passed down through female lines; as Mrs. Stone had no daughters, Henry Stone donated to NHHS. Chair descended in the family of the Alma Stone, through the Morse line, tradition being that the chair was brought from England. The Morse family resided in Sherborn, Mass. from the early 1670s to 1762, when Thomas, ancestor of Alma Stone, became the first permanent settler of Dublin, N.H.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Henry R. Stone, in memory of Alma H. Stone
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