Attributed to Edmund Dickinson
Williamsburg, Virginia, 1770-1776
Cherry with oak
Gift of William Byron Bailey in memory of Dorothy Tazewell King Bailey
Catalog no. 26
On this Williamsburg-made chair, the maker augmented the neat and plain form with ornamentation taken from Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (the bowknot on the splat), and the cast-iron warming machine first used in the Capitol at Williamsburg (the anthemion on the crest rail).