In answering a comment in the previous post I listed the different forms that can be attributed to the Bartram family joiner. They include tea tables, stands, oval tables, three drawer and single drawer dressing tables, tables without drawers, chests of drawers, chests over drawers, spice boxes, and spice boxes on frames. All of these … Continue reading To a Square Walnut Table
Bartram Family Joiner Chest Over Drawers, Part 2
I found the Bartram Family joiner chest over drawers in a corner on the balcony at Pook & Pook, Inc. It did not rate the main gallery on the ground floor, but then, it is not a complex furniture form, it's not made of walnut , and while its primary wood species is a softwood, … Continue reading Bartram Family Joiner Chest Over Drawers, Part 2
Bartram Family Joiner Chest Over Drawers
On January 12, 2019, Pook & Pook Inc. will be auctioning a hard pine chest, 1720-1730, that can be attributed to the Bartram family joiner. In previous blog posts I highlighted furniture attributed to this shop including an oval table and a dressing table made for James and Elizabeth Maris Bartram who were married in 1725. … Continue reading Bartram Family Joiner Chest Over Drawers
Re-framing History, John and Rebecca Head’s Home
John Head left "my House and Lot or piece of ground in Mulberry Street wherein I now dwell, joyning to Mary Pounds Lott" to his daughter Mary Head Lawrence. The house was on the north side of Arch Street (the name of the street was changed from Mulberry to Arch before the end of the … Continue reading Re-framing History, John and Rebecca Head’s Home
“To a Walnut Dask”, Part II, The Writing Compartment.
For a lack of other surviving desks that can be attributed to John Head’s shop, we have no way of knowing if the writing compartment is typical of his work. More or less elaborate interiors may account for some part of the range of prices Head charged for desks. Along the back at the center … Continue reading “To a Walnut Dask”, Part II, The Writing Compartment.
