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Arm chair, Chippendale form with pierced splat. Gothic arch at center top, spiral leaf ears on crest. Marlborough legs and beaded edge. Well-modeled arms with rounded hand holds and curved arm supports with paired volutes. Back legs are chamfered below stretchers on outside front. Serpentine center made of additional piece of wood (white pine). Seat rail (maple) nailed on with four roseheaded nails.
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
cloth
Chippendale
Chair
"Admiral Dewey held this/ piece in his hand and/ examined it Sept 2 1901" (pencil)
"Geo G Brewester/ Portsmouth NH/ 1832" (ink; George Gains Brewster (1797-1872), Portsmouth watchmaker and dentist; his father Samuel (d.1834), owned "1 Mahogany arm Chair"; thr family included joiners, chairmakers, and antiquarians)
"1776/ PORTSMOUTH John Langdon" (shipbuilder and governor of New Hampshire)
Possibly Short, Joseph, 1771-1819 (Maker)
New Hampshire; Massachusetts
38 3/8 x 27 x 20 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Mrs. Woodbury Langdon
1966.286
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
New Hampshire (United States)
Possibly Massachusetts (United States)
Probably Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Possibly Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)
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