Object Essay This “card table with rounded corners,” “claw feet,” carved “leaves on [its] knees,” and a carved ornament in the center of the skirt...
Object Essay This chair has all the characteristics of the standard colonial American easy chair, a form derived from English examples of the 1720s and...
Object Essay Upholstered chairs with open arms were frequently made in large sets for aristocratic English houses, but they were uncommon in the American colonies....
Object Essay It was the long-accepted wisdom that very little important, high-style furniture was made in the South, particularly in the colonial era. Cultural and...
Object Essay The arched backs, serpentine front seat rails, and outward-scrolling arms of Philadelphia sofas made them dramatic focal points in the parlor. Unlike chairs,...
Object Essay Few cities experienced the extraordinary growth that transformed Baltimore after the close of the Revolutionary War. With the arrival of immigrants from every...
Object Essay John Shaw is the most famous name in Maryland cabinetmaking of the eighteenth century. His renown has two principal causes. First, contrary to...
Object Essay The inscribed date on the label of this table shows that it was made three years later than the other Shaw table in...
Object Essay During the last quarter of the 18th century, small drop-leaf tables of this form were referred to interchangeably as breakfast or Pembroke tables....
