ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. Merchant’s House Museum’s curvilinear side chair (2002.2012.1) Image courtesy of Merchant’s House Museum.
Figure 2. MMA Chair, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession 68.202.1
Figure 3. Vail Chair. Image courtesy of Peter Kenny, MMA.
Figure 4. Set of chairs, Stanley Weiss Collection.
Figure 5. Klismos chair
Figure 6. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fiedler at their home on Bond Street by F. Heinrich.
Figure 7. Side chair, c. 1850, Audience Room, Osborne House. Made by Holland &
Sons. Image courtesy of Osborne House.
Figure 8. “Sunday afternoon temperance meeting (1877).”
Image courtesy of The New York Public Library.
Figure 9. Trade card of “John B. Bland, Dealer in New and Second-Hand Furniture.”
Image courtesy of New-York Historical Society.
Figure 10. Illustrations of George Hepplewhite curved back chairs, from Thomas Arthur Strange's English furniture, Decoration, Woodwork and Allied Arts: From the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century.
Figure 11. Chais a la Montgolfier (M. Penardy y Fernandez). Cat. 188 in Pierre Verlet's L'Art du Meuble A Paris au XVIII Siecle
Figure 12. Sketch, curvilinear chair, Gillows Day book.
Figure 13. Earl of Manvers Chair, Plate GG12 in Susan Stuart's Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Vol 2.
Figure 14. Richard Stoate Pattern Book, Image courtesy of Brown University.
Figure 14a. Richard Stoate Pattern Book, Image courtesy of Brown University.
Figure 15. Klismos chair, MMA 1994.189
Figure 16. Adam Buck (1759-1833), The Artist and his Family, 1813. Watercolor and graphite on card. Cat. 28 in Wendy Cooper’s Classical Taste in America.
Figure 17. Chair, MMA 62.16
Figure 18. Lyre back chair, MMA 65.188.2
Figure 19. Side chair, Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection 1930.2007.
Figure 20. Triptych of the three curvilinear chairs of this study.
Figure 21. Comparison of saber leg silhouettes, MMA 68.202.1
Figure 22. Back left leg template of MMA 68.202.1. Taken by the author.
Figure 23. Front right leg template of MMA 68.202.1 Taken by the author.
Figure 24. MHM Seat construction. Image by the author.
Figure 25. MMA Seat construction. Image by the author.
Figure 26. Woldman & Woldman chair. Image courtesy of Murray Woldman.
Figure 27. Medial brace of seat frame. Image VII-1a in Mary Ann Apicella's Scottish Cabinetmaking in Federal New York.
Figure 28. Inset panel of MHM chair. Image by the author.
Figure 29. Inset panel of MMA chair. Image by the author
Figure 30. Graduating seat rail of MHM Chair. Image by author.
Figure 31. Seat rail of MMA Chair. Image by author.
Figure 32. Gillows Daybook, 1805. Klismos style chair.
Figure 33. Gillows Daybook, 1808. Hybrid chair with a turned crest rail, and a large rectangular splat.
Figure 34. Gillows Daybook, 1821. armchair based on a barrel shape.
Figure 35. Gillows Daybook, 1823. Curvilinear chair.
Figure 36. Gillows Daybook, 1827. Curvilinear chair.
Fig. 37 Two centuries of the curvilinear chair.
A. Side chair made for the Earl of Manvers, UK. Gillow. 1822 B. Side chair, Merchant’s House Museum. New York. c. 1825-1830
C. Side chair, Aiken Rhett House, Historic Charleston Foundation. 1830-1850.
D. Side Chair, made for The White House. Charles A. Baudouine, New York, c.
1845.
E. Side chair, Fig. 247 in Art and the Empire City. Possible J.W. Meeks. c. 1850 F. Gilded side chair, Osborne House, UK. Holland & Sons. c. 1850
G. Side chair, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Att. Elijah Galusha. c.
1850-70
H. Side chair by Thonet. 1851.
I. Side chair, Preservation Society of Newport. c. 1870.
J. Calligaris Wien Chair CS/1091-C. c. 2008
