{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/manifest","label":"dapc_1986-0326-001_overall","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"dapc_1986-0326-001_overall"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Object owned by Historic New England, https://www.historicnewengland.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":"1980.79"},{"label":"Credit","value":"Gift of Miss Florence L. Bixby"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Historic New England"},{"label":"Context","value":"Text from Historic New England online catalog: \"Taken from Boston to the wilds of the territory now known as Maine, this chest of drawers suggests the close ties people in the eighteenth century maintained with Boston even after they moved away. According to a surviving bill of sale, Jonathan Bowman, cousin of Declaration of Independence signer John Hancock, purchased the chest of drawers from cabinetmaker George Bright in 1770, the year of Bowman's marriage to Mary Lowell Emerson. Gentlemen often had new household furniture made during the year of their marriage. The chest bears a stylish mahogany blockfront fa?ºade, characterized by protruding and recessed drawer fronts. Bowman transported the chest to his home in newly-settled Pownalborough, Massachusetts (present-day Dresden, Maine), where he held prominent positions including collector of the excise and justice of the peace. This chest attests to Bowman's desire to live as a Boston gentleman despite having moved to the northern frontier."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Chests of drawers"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Chests"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Book: Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, with the assistance of Philip Zea, New England Furniture, the Colonial Era: Selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), 145, no. 15.  Online resource: Historic New England, https://www.historicnewengland.org (accessed February 20, 2018), 1980.79."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"Made for Jonathan Bowman, of Pownalborough, Massachusetts (now Maine), according to a bill of sale from 1770, who bequeathed it to his widow, Nancy Goodwin Bowman, who took it to her brother's house in 1809. It was inherited with the house by Mrs. Bowman's nephew and his wife, David and Lydia Goodwin. It was taken by the latter in 1895 to the California home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Goodwin Bixby, who inherited it in 1903 and left it to her children in 1909. The surviving child, Florence L. Bixby, returned it to New England."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"Itemized on the same bill of sale (Dated August 1770) as DAPC_1986-0335, DAPC_1986-0327, DAPC_1986-0330, and DAPC_1986-0336."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 31 in. (78.7 cm), Width 39 in. (99.1 cm), Depth 20.69 in. (52.6 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Chippendale-style breakfront chest of drawers made of mahogany with white pine as a secondary wood.  The projecting sections of the breakfront are curved. The case top has integral cove molding along the front and sides, which overhang the case. The shape of the top conforms to the breakfront profile of the case. The case holds four drawers with bead molded edges. Each drawer has a central shaped escutcheon with a keyhole flanked by bat-wing bail pulls attached to matching escutcheons. The drawer dividers are thin mahogany strips backed by 3.5 in. deep white pine boards. The facing strips and the drawer dividers are cut to form a beaded edge surrounding each drawer opening. The front base molding is joined to the case with a giant dovetail. The drawers have thick dovetails and the tops of the drawer sides are cut with a small bead on the inside edges. Forged finishing nails hold each drawer bottom to the rabbeted edges of the front and sides. Runners, each a full-depth strip of white pine, are glued to the drawer bottoms just inside the lower edges of the drawer sides. Each runner is finished at the back with a 45-degree-angle cut. Drawer supports are nailed to the case sides.  A series of small rectangular support blocks is glued beneath the bottom along the inside edges of the base molding. The glue blocks along the side base molding are nailed in addition. The base trim is cyma reverse and at center, where the case is dramatically concave, features a scalloped drop glued to the base molding. The feet are bracket with c-curves and double ogee shaping. The rear elements of the rear feet have a profile characteristic of Boston work and are cut to fit over the support blocks. Behind each rear foot is a vertical glue block, a common feature that seldom survives.  The brass hardware and the locks are original. The key escutcheons are 1976 replacements cut to match the original handles. The chest was repaired and refinished in 1895 by August Bixby. The left front foot is piece 2.75 in. at the bottom. The feet once had castors."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Materials","value":"Mahogany; White pine"},{"label":"Style","value":["Chippendale"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date of 1770 provided by Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, in New England Furniture, the Colonial Era (1984), pg. 146, no. 15."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1760 - D:00 M:00 Y:1780"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"George Bright was active in Boston as a cabinetmaker in the mid-to-late eighteenth century."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Bill of sale dated August 8, 1770 identifies Bright as the maker."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Bright, George, cabinetmaker, 1726-1805, active about 1750-1800"]},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Chest of drawers"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Case furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Chest of drawers"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Chest of drawers","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Chest of drawers","height":1349,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/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/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1349,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e0907270-8fbf-48fe-a46b-b8ceea3ac455/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}