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Rooms #2 - Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
Winterthur, Delaware
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Queen Anne table, sofa, & chairs.
Chair on right is a corner chair

Corner chair:

Corner chair:

Corner chair - Trifid foot

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Queen Anne armchair:

  • Made in Philadelphia
  • Pierced splat

Queen Anne armchair:

Queen Anne armchair:

Queen Anne armchair:

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Queen Anne armchair -
trifid front foot

 

 

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NYC Empire style parlor

Empire mirrored console (pier table)

Empire mirrored console (pier table)

Empire mirrored console (pier table)

Gilded acanthus leaf on front lion's paw foot

Empire fire screens

Empire marble fireplace:

  • Rescued from building on 6th St. in New York City
  • C. 1839
  • Paneled frieze

Empire marble fireplace

Empire fire screen:

  • 1840
  • Movable panel
  • Curved tripod base with acanthus leaves ending in animal feet

Empire side chair

Empire side chair

  • Klismos shape
  • Rectangular top rail with rounded upper edge, curving in center

Empire side chair - gilded, stenciled Classical figures on top rail include griffins

Empire side chair

Empire side chair - front seat rail rounded, with gilded stenciling

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Empire side chair

Hepplewhite shield back side chair

  • Made in Baltimore
  • 1810
  • Tapered, straight legs

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Federal candlestand and Wedgwood Jasperware candle holder

Wedgwood Jasperware candle holder

Federal candlestand

  • Tripod pedestal base
  • Cabriole legs mortised into base

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Hepplewhite shield back side chair

  • Made in Baltimore
  • Spade foot
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John Seymour tambour desk

Tambour

  • Banding
  • Fold-over writing lid hinges

John Seymour tambour desk



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Overhanging molding at top and between cupboard and drawers