{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db818d95-9a57-46a7-b00e-91b215167e80/manifest","label":"1968-0149","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"1968-0149"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, Winterthur Library"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Object in the collection of The Dietrich American Foundation, https://dietrichamericanfoundation.org/.  Metadata and images digitized from the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection of the Winterthur Library. For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org."},{"label":"Owner's Accession Number","value":"8.3.3.419"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"The Dietrich American Foundation"},{"label":"Context","value":"On October 3, 1936, Florence Allyne signed an affidavit attesting to the history of the table. The affidavit reads as follows: [To Whom it May Concern:-The Walnut Dressing Table / with Slate top (a photo of which is hereto annexed) / was handed directly down the family to me. It came / from Governor Thomas Hinkley of Barnstable, who was / Governor of Plymouth Colony in the latter part / of the XVII century. / Signed: [rest of line in script] Florence N. Allyne / [undecipherable line in Allyne's hand] / \"There personally appeared the above named person / and made oath that the facts herein contained are / true to the best of their knowledge and belief. / October 3, 1936. / Notary Public: / [script] William M. Jacobs].  Per Benno Forman in 1975, \"Governor Hinkley's inventory does not include any object that can be interpreted to be this piece of furniture.\"  Forman notes in 1975 that although the top is not original, the tops had not been original on any slate-top table he had examined."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Dressing tables","Low chests"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Dressing tables"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Article: \"Antiques in Domestic Settings: The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Davis,\" Antiques 39, no. 1 (January 1941): 18-21.  Article: \"The Editor's Attic: The Frontispiece,\" Antiques 35, no. 4 (April 1939): 168-70.  Book: Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates,?áAmerican Furniture, 1620 to the Present (New York: Richard Marek, 1981), 66.  Article: Alexandra W. Rollins, \"Furniture in the Collection of the Dietrich American Foundation,\"?á?áAntiques 125, no. 5 (May 1984): 1100-19, fig. 2.  Article: Mabel Munson Swan, \"American Slab Tables,\"?á?áAntiques?á63, no. 1 (January 1953): 40-43.  Book: Alice Winchester, ed., Living With Antiques (New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1941), 54-5.  Online resource: The Dietrich American Foundation, Online Collections Database, http://earlyamericanart.pastperfectonline.com (accessed January 19, 2018), 8.3.3.419."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"According to family history, the table was originally owned by Governor Thomas Hinkley of Barnstable, Massachusetts, royal governor of the Plymouth Colony in the late 17th century.  According to The Dietrich American Foundation, the table may have been owned by Samuel Hinkley Allyne (1802-1883), a cabinetmaker from Sandwich, Massachusetts. The table may have passed to his daughter, (1844-1926) of Framingham, Massachusetts. Florence N. Allyne (1875-1964) acquired the table in 1926, possibly as an inheritance from her aunt, Lucinda Allyne. Israel Sack, Inc., acquired the table in 1936 and sold it to Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Davis the same year. Sack re-acquired the table in 1968 and sold it to The Dietrich American Foundation in February 1968."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 30 in. (76.2 cm), Width 44.25 in. (112.4 cm), Depth 30.375 in. (77.2 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"A William and Mary-style dressing table constructed of walnut primary wood and white pine and maple secondary woods, with walnut burl veneer and fruitwood and other wood inlay. The top has an octagonal slate center in a broad wooden frame. The frame is composed of solid borders framing panels with inlaid decoration; the panels are located at each corner and along the front, back, and side edges. The panels at the front and back corners and along the short sides are plain, with an inlaid geometric border. The panels at the end corners contain foliate borders around lions rampant each holding a sword, flanking a crown over a double-headed eagle with a sword in each foot. The panels along the long sides contain a geometric foliate pattern in an inlaid border matching the inlay on the plainer panels.  The case has three drawers in a single row, with double cock-bead molding around the drawer openings; the center drawer is half the height of the side drawers. Each drawer is bordered by herringbone inlay, with burl walnut veneer in the center, and has engraved escutcheons with bail handles. The case is veneered with burl walnut. The side skirt is double-arched; the front skirt has shallow arches at the side and a serpentine arch at center, with two turned acorn pendants descending from the points between the arches. The whole skirt is bordered with cock-bead molding. The legs are trumpet and vase turned, with turned bun feet; the X-shaped stretcher has serpentine arms and a turned urn-and-spire finial at the center.  As of 1939, the veneer was unpatched, the top was in its original state, and the brasses and pendants were original; portions of the cock-bead molding along the skirt had been replaced.  See Basis of place of origin for a discussion of the table's top."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Materials","value":"Walnut; Figured walnut; Fruitwood; Unidentified wood; White pine; Maple; Slate; Unidentified metal"},{"label":"Style","value":["William and Mary"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date range of 1690-1700 provided by \"The Editor's Attic\" (Antiques 35), 1939.  Date range of 1680-1690 provided by \"Antiques in Domestic Settings\" (Antiques 39), 1941.  Estimated date of \"late 1600s\" provided by Swan (Antiques 63), 1953.  Date range of 1700-1720 provided by Fairbanks and Bates, 1981.  Date range of 1700-1725 provided by Rollins (Antiques 125), 1984.  Date range of 1715-1725 provided by The Dietrich American Foundation."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1680 - D:00 M:00 Y:1725"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"The top had been attributed variously to Switzerland or Holland, per \"The Editor's Attic\" (Antiques 35), 1939.  In the 1970s, Benno Forman asserted that \"if American, made in Boston.\"  Fairbanks and Bates in American Furniture and Rollins in Antiques 125 attribute the base to the Boston region and the top to Switzerland, 1981 and 1984.  Place of origin identified as Boston by Brock Jobe, 2015.  According to The Dietrich American Foundation, \"This table is one of more than a dozen tables having a top with a slate center and a wood veneered surround believed to be produced in workshops in northeastern Switzerland and then imported to Boston where colonial cabinetmakers fit them with bases\" (2018)."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts; Switzerland; Netherlands"},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Dressing bureau; Toilet table; Vanity; Lowboy; Low chest of drawers"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Table"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Support furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Dressing table"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Dressing table","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db818d95-9a57-46a7-b00e-91b215167e80/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1968-0149-001","height":1131,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b336cd4a-7c00-449e-91be-05a911c7ba93/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/b336cd4a-7c00-449e-91be-05a911c7ba93","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1131,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db818d95-9a57-46a7-b00e-91b215167e80/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b336cd4a-7c00-449e-91be-05a911c7ba93/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db818d95-9a57-46a7-b00e-91b215167e80/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1968-0149-002","height":1171,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ebe676bb-bb52-4306-a6b1-58c187799e76/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/ebe676bb-bb52-4306-a6b1-58c187799e76","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1171,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/db818d95-9a57-46a7-b00e-91b215167e80/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/ebe676bb-bb52-4306-a6b1-58c187799e76/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b336cd4a-7c00-449e-91be-05a911c7ba93/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}