Furniture

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TUDOR PLACE | Last day open of 2024: Sunday, December 29.

The emergence of a distinct American style can be traced through the furniture collection’s 600 examples of American, English, French, Asian and German furniture. Ranging from the 17th-century Baroque to the Colonial Revival in the early 20th century, it encompasses a range of forms, primary and secondary woods, and surface ornament, such as turning, carving, veneering, and painted decoration.

Situated within an architectural setting defined by neoclassical ornamentation, the collection creates a rich context for understanding the transformation and diversification of American interiors.

The collection includes several early 19th-century pieces associated with Martha and Thomas Peter, Tudor Place’s builders, and their five surviving children. Painted “Fancy” chairs, ladies’ and men’s desks, card tables, and work tables feature styles and attributes associated with local cabinetmakers in Georgetown, the Federal City and Alexandria.

Elsewhere in the collection, the austere style and bold curves of Grecian fashion appear in a group of American parlor tables, pier tables and a ca. 1830 bedstead.

French and English examples offer important counterpoints to the collection’s American pieces, notably a secrétaire abattant and matching chest of drawers.

A small group of furniture made or repaired by Washington cabinetmaker Maximilian F. Rosinski (1869–1962), a Polish immigrant, illustrates the reemergence of 18th-century styles during the Colonial Revival of the early 20th century.

The collection includes a rare example of a wicker invalid chair from the 1890s, used by the estate’s owner, Britannia Peter Kennon in the early 20th century.

Chair New York ca. 1770-80 Mahogany 94.4004.01

Stool English, ca. 1760 Mahogany 4162

Card Table Unknown maker, Baltimore, Md, ca. 1795 – 1810. Mahogany, oak, and tulip poplar 4054.01

Ladies’ Work Table Painted in Philadelphia by America P. Peter, ca. 1818 – 1820. Made in Boston, or North Shore, New Hampshire Maple and maple veneers, Eastern White Pine (secondary wood); 4093.01

Armchair Probably Mid-Atlantic, ca. 1800 – 1810. Birch, ash, hickory, rush, 4154

Sidechair William King Jr., Georgetown, D.C, 1815-1820 Mahogany, poplar, pine, 94.4003.01

Ladies Desk Attr. to Andrew Joseph Villard, Georgetown, D.C., ca. 1800-1810 Mahogany with red pine secondary and satinwood veneer, ebony, brass 93.4004.01

Side Chair Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ca.1765-1775 Mahogany 4077.02

Cylinder Desk & Bookcase Baltimore, Maryland or Washington, D.C, ca. 1800 Mahogany with mahogany & lightwood veneers,Yellow Pine and Poplar 4159

Sidechair Pope & Thompson, Washington, D.C., ca. 1810-1820 Birch, ash, hickory, rush, paint 4194.01

Nesting tables (set of four) England, ca. 1780 Mahogany 4057.01

Table, Tilt-top Occasional (Candle Stand) Maker unknown, Mid-Atlantic, ca. 1800-1810 Mahogany, brass, iron 93.4007

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