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Bybee"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Dallas Museum of Art"},{"label":"Context","value":"In the 1790s, Foster brought a suit against Josiah Willard for defamation of character, claiming Willard accused him of stealing a note dated 1795. Chair maker William Dalton served as a witness. Foster said, \"for a long time [he had] followed the art, trade, and mystery of Windsor chair-making [and was] a workman well capable of performing in a workmanlike manner any work in his trade.\" The court called on tradesmen, painters, turners, and other chairmakers as witnesses, but ultimately found Willard not guilty and Foster paid him $26 and received a receipt (which, as extant documentation, aside from his branded chairs, verifies Foster's profession as a Boston chairmaker). See Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996), 413, n. 209."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Windsor chairs"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Windsor chairs"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Advertisement: \"Marguerite Riordan,\" Antiques 128, no. 3 (September 1985): 319.  Book: Charles Venable,?áAmerican Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin: University of Texas Press in association with the Dallas Museum of Art, 1989), 70, no. 32.  Online resource: Dallas Museum of Art, Collections, https://collections.dma.org/ (accessed July 31, 2018), 1992.B.71.1."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"Previously owned by the Amos Kingsbury estate of Milford, MA. As of 1985, the chairs were in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee. Owned by the Dallas Museum of Art, as of 1989."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"One of a set of six. DAPC number 1986-0082 was erroneously assigned to this piece."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 37.875 in. (96.2 cm), Width 22.5 in. (57.2 cm), Depth 18.175 in. (46.1 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Windsor-style, bow-back side chair with bamboo turnings, one of a set of six.  The bow-back, which is grooved on the front-facing side, contains nine spindles tenoned to the plank. The seat is shield-shaped and dished with a slight pummel at front. The four bamboo-turned legs are tenoned through the seat and are braced by swelled, h-shaped stretchers.  The chair has many layers of brown paint."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"10/31/2018"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Branded under seat: [J. FOSTER]."},{"label":"Basis of Materials","value":"According to Venable (1989), the seat is eastern white pine, the bentwood back is oak, the spindles are ash, and the legs and side stretchers are soft maple."},{"label":"Materials","value":"White pine; Oak; Ash; Maple"},{"label":"Style","value":["Windsor"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Approximate date of 1796 provided by Riordan (1985). Approximate date range of 1795-1800 provided by Venable (1989)."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1795 - D:00 M:00 Y:1800"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Foster worked in Boston."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Branded by Foster."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Foster, Jesse, chairmaker, 1773-1800, active about 1795-1800"]},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Windsor side chair"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Chair"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Seating furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Windsor chair"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"10/31/2018"}],"description":"Windsor chair","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8194bf0e-a26f-484f-ab77-56f4c422a5f2/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1986-0081-007_set-of-6-bw","height":1500,"width":1324,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/546a84a6-29ed-43c9-af47-b1dbeb8e6c9f/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/546a84a6-29ed-43c9-af47-b1dbeb8e6c9f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":1324},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8194bf0e-a26f-484f-ab77-56f4c422a5f2/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/546a84a6-29ed-43c9-af47-b1dbeb8e6c9f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8194bf0e-a26f-484f-ab77-56f4c422a5f2/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1986-0081-008_brand","height":761,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b3314d91-378f-415c-8e4d-e23cdccc0b3c/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/b3314d91-378f-415c-8e4d-e23cdccc0b3c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":761,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8194bf0e-a26f-484f-ab77-56f4c422a5f2/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b3314d91-378f-415c-8e4d-e23cdccc0b3c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/546a84a6-29ed-43c9-af47-b1dbeb8e6c9f/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}