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For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org."},{"label":"Owner's Accession Number","value":"1954.0523"},{"label":"Credit","value":"Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library"},{"label":"Context","value":"This chair was attributed by Benno Forman as made by a John Leach (w. 1724; d. 1799) based on the chair's similarity to another owned by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (36.22), which is marked by a John Leach. Forman attributed these chairs to the shop of John Leach based on the ???yoke-back??? style of the chair back, but Nancy Goyne Evans and Nancy Richards were doubtful because there are many examples of yoke-back chairs that come from various regions and therefore that characteristic is not indicative of one particular maker. Furthermore, Evans and Richards say all of the differences in design between the ???Leach family chair??? (36.22) and the Winterthur chair (1954.0523) outweigh the similarities. Chair 36.22 is marked by another name following Leach, [COFFIN], which provides another clue that the chairs are not marked by a maker???s name but rather an owner???s. A John Leach from Boston, MA who was working as of 1724, died in 1799, and married to Sarah Coffin, was a school master working on Fish St. and living on North Bennet St. There was another John Leach (b. 1683; m. 1713; d. 1748), a joiner, active around the same time as schoolmaster John Leach, and who may or may not be the maker of the Winterthur chair but whose existence has been somewhat overshadowed in scholarship by schoolmaster John Leach. Some scholars, when referring to the attributed maker of this chair, have mistakenly provided alongside his name the working and death dates of the schoolmaster. Joiner John Leach married Ruth Miller/Millar in 1713. His estate inventory upon his death indicates he left joiner???s tools to his son James Leach/Leech. It???s unlikely that the two John Leach???s were related as the schoolmaster was born in England."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Side chairs"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Chairs"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Article: Brock Jobe, \"The Boston Furniture Industry 1720???1740,\" In Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century: A Conference Held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 11 and 12 May 1972, ed. Walter Muir Whitehill, Jonathan L. Fairbanks, and Brock Jobe, 2-38 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974), 45, fig. 33.  Catalog: Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730:???An Interpretive Catalogue (New York: W. W. Norton, a Winterthur Book, 1988), 287, fig. 156.  Catalog: Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, et al., New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Wilmington, DE: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 14-15, no. 7.  Article: Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, \"The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style,\" in???American Furniture, ed. Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1998): fig. 39.  Article: Gregory J. Landrey, \"Mrs. Oliver's Chair,\" in Boston Furniture 1700-1900, ed. Brock Jobe and Gerald W. R. Ward (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2016), 79, fig. 2.  Online resource: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Collections, http://museumcollection.winterthur.org/ (accessed October 26, 2018), 1954.0523."},{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"Exhibition: \"The Cut of the Cloth,\" Tri Delta Antiques Show (Dallas, TX, March 28-31, 1985)  Exhibition: \"Change and Choice in Early American Decorative Arts,\" IBM Gallery of Science and Art (New York, NY, December 12, 1989-February 3, 1990)"},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"Similar in design to 36.21 and 36.22, owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 40 in. (101.6 cm), Seat height 16.9 in. (42.9 cm), Width 21.6 in. (54.9 cm), Width at crest 14.8 in. (37.5 cm), Width at seat front 20.7 in. (52.5 cm), Width of seat back 15 in. (38.1 cm), Depth 19.9 in. (50.5 cm), Seat depth 17 in. (43.1 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Queen Anne-style, splat-back side chair made of black walnut with soft maple group constituting the loose seat frame, medium brown color in resin, and modern brown leather upholstery.  The chair back is rectangular with a yoke crest, a vase-shaped splat, and rounded shoulders. The crest is supported on rectangular tenons at the flat-faced, contoured stile tops and splat. The splat is rounded at the edges, front to back, and tenoned into the shoe, which is hollow on the front and sides and nailed to the back rail. The rear corners are chamfered from crest to seat. The side stiles are tapered towards the top, flat on front and chamfered on the back corners. The frame of the compass-shaped seat is rounded on the front top edge and shaped with flat arches on the bottom of the frame???s front and sides. An inner lip supports the loose-seat frame. A slip seat covered with brown leather upholstery sits in the frame. The seat rails are joined to the posts and front leg extensions with rectangular tenons. The rear legs are chamfered on all corners between the seat and the rear stretcher. The feet are rounded on the front and chamfered on the front corners. Bracing the four legs are stretchers in a box shape; the back stretcher set a few inches above the front and side stretchers and the front stretcher recessed from the front, connected to the block turnings on the side stretchers. The front and back stretchers are centrally swelled with conical ends. The side stretchers are block-turned at either end, with conical embellishment towards the front and with ring turnings. The front legs are cabriole and terminate in pad feet; the back legs are squared, cant backward, and have chamfered corners.  According to Evans and Richards, as of 1997, the crest ends have glued and patched age cracks. The left knee brackets are chipped at the upper front corner and there has been regluing of some elements. The right, front foot has chipped. The medial and rear stretchers are damaged. The original loose-seat frame has been reinforced with rails added to the inside of the frame. The seat retains its old webbing and linen sacking. According to the Winterthur object record, between 1930 and 1960, the slip seat was reupholstered with brown leather."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"1/19/2019"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Incised on front seat rail: [V]."},{"label":"Basis of Materials","value":"Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library identifies the primary wood used as black walnut and the secondary wood as soft maple group based on microanalysis performed around 2006."},{"label":"Materials","value":"Black walnut; Maple; Leather"},{"label":"Style","value":["Queen Anne"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date range of 1730-1765 provided by Winterthur (1969). Date range of 1735-1760 provided by Jobe (1974). Date range of 1735-1755 provided by Freund and Keno (1998). Date range of 1740-65 provided by Landrey (2016). Date range also based on approximate date of 1732 provided by Forman (1988)."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1730 - D:00 M:00 Y:1765"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Characteristics of design and construction indicate a Boston origin. Confirmed by Winterthur (1969), Jobe (1974), Evans and Richards (1997), Freund and Keno (1998), and Landrey (2016)."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"The brand on this chair is unlikely to have been that of the maker and is probably that of the owner."},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Occasional chair"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Chair"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Seating furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Side chair"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"1/19/2019"}],"description":"Side chair","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1952217e-7e08-46bd-a7a0-8fd72ba40f59/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1988-0554_001_overall_color","height":1500,"width":975,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c78b8e88-c7e8-4f83-868c-b9c3dfcc7ee5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c78b8e88-c7e8-4f83-868c-b9c3dfcc7ee5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":975},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1952217e-7e08-46bd-a7a0-8fd72ba40f59/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c78b8e88-c7e8-4f83-868c-b9c3dfcc7ee5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1952217e-7e08-46bd-a7a0-8fd72ba40f59/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1988-0554-002_overall_bw","height":1500,"width":1000,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60b12b47-f71b-47f5-afe0-b479a4490d10/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60b12b47-f71b-47f5-afe0-b479a4490d10","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1500,"width":1000},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/1952217e-7e08-46bd-a7a0-8fd72ba40f59/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/60b12b47-f71b-47f5-afe0-b479a4490d10/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c78b8e88-c7e8-4f83-868c-b9c3dfcc7ee5/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}