Museum notes: Historical New Hampshire/ by New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Title:
- Museum notes: Historical New Hampshire/ by New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Author:
- New Hampshire Historical Society
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, N.H. : New Hampshire Historical Society, 1963.
- Physical Description:
- p. 37-43
- Source:
- Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1963 Vol. 18, No.2 (October 1963) Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- The article discusses pieces of furniture held by the New Hampshire Historical Society. It examines a mahogany side chair once owned by Sarah Countess of Rumford. The author also comments on two tripod tables, also called candlestands, one possible made from maple and one from mahogany. All three pieces of furniture were made in New England from roughly 1790 to 1800, during the early Federal period. The influence of authors and furniture makers George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton is considered.Contains black and white photographs.
- Subjects:
- Furniture. , Chairs.
- Organizations:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.
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