Harbor & home : furniture of southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 / Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: [First edition]Description: xviii, 435 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780912724683
  • 0912724684
Other title:
  • Harbor and home
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Contents:
Foreword / Leslie Greene Bowman -- Preface / Brock Jobe -- An introduction to Southeastern Massachusetts and ts furnuture / Brock HJobe -- Shaped by the sea: cabinetmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts / Jack O'Brien and Derin Bray -- Clockmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts: the Bailey famiy of Hanover / Gary R. Sullivan -- Catalogue -- Brock Jobe, gary R. Sullivan, Jack O'Brien, Derin Bray, Dennis Carr, Karin Goldstein, Forbes Maner, Nicholas S. Schonberger, Laura Simo, Martha Willoughby -- Appendix: Southeastern Massachusetts cabinetmakes and clockmakers: 1710-1850 / Gary R. Sullivan -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.
Review: "Three authoritative essays introduce the subject, highlight the importance of nautical influences in the region, and discuss the celebrated and marvelous Bailey family clocks. These essays and more than one hundred illustrated furniture entries combine to present a wonderful, comprehensive look at the lifestyle and furniture craftsmanship of a little-studied time period - the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - in southeastern Massachusetts, an understudied geographical area of New England. Featured pieces originate in private and institutional collections. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, Jack O'Brien, and their collaborators do a masterful job. Through gorgeously photographed period furniture and meticulously researched data, they chronicle the extraordinary transformation of the landscape, population, and economy of southeastern Massachusetts. They also consider the activities of furniture craftsmen, the purchasing patterns of local buyers, regionalism and the forces that shaped it, changing preferences in fashion, the impact of local residents' growing affluence during this period, and the evolving techniques of contemporary furniture makers. An inclusive appendix listing regional cabinetmakers and clockmakers and a selected bibliography round out this elegant work. Collectors, scholars, and other interested readers will find the volume an indispensable and much-consulted addition to their libraries."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-428) and index.

Foreword / Leslie Greene Bowman -- Preface / Brock Jobe -- An introduction to Southeastern Massachusetts and ts furnuture / Brock HJobe -- Shaped by the sea: cabinetmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts / Jack O'Brien and Derin Bray -- Clockmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts: the Bailey famiy of Hanover / Gary R. Sullivan -- Catalogue -- Brock Jobe, gary R. Sullivan, Jack O'Brien, Derin Bray, Dennis Carr, Karin Goldstein, Forbes Maner, Nicholas S. Schonberger, Laura Simo, Martha Willoughby -- Appendix: Southeastern Massachusetts cabinetmakes and clockmakers: 1710-1850 / Gary R. Sullivan -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.

"Three authoritative essays introduce the subject, highlight the importance of nautical influences in the region, and discuss the celebrated and marvelous Bailey family clocks. These essays and more than one hundred illustrated furniture entries combine to present a wonderful, comprehensive look at the lifestyle and furniture craftsmanship of a little-studied time period - the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - in southeastern Massachusetts, an understudied geographical area of New England. Featured pieces originate in private and institutional collections. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, Jack O'Brien, and their collaborators do a masterful job. Through gorgeously photographed period furniture and meticulously researched data, they chronicle the extraordinary transformation of the landscape, population, and economy of southeastern Massachusetts. They also consider the activities of furniture craftsmen, the purchasing patterns of local buyers, regionalism and the forces that shaped it, changing preferences in fashion, the impact of local residents' growing affluence during this period, and the evolving techniques of contemporary furniture makers. An inclusive appendix listing regional cabinetmakers and clockmakers and a selected bibliography round out this elegant work. Collectors, scholars, and other interested readers will find the volume an indispensable and much-consulted addition to their libraries."--Jacket.

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A scholarly catalog of the 106 pieces of antique furniture made 1710 to 1850 made in Southern MAssachussetts that are in the collection of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware (USA) as exhibited in a temporary exhibit in early 2009. Includes three scholarly essays (26p: Into to SE Mass Furniture, 12p: Cabinetmaking in SE Mass and 5p: Clockmaking in SE Mass-The Bailey family of Hannover). A 286 page catalog section, describing 106 objects (22 of which are clocks) and a 65 page directory of Cabinetmakers and clockmakers of SE Mass. - Bibliography. Index. Copiously illustrated by color photographs.

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