Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Jobe, Brock.

Publication

Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• O'Brien, Jack.
• Sullivan, Gary R.

Description

xviii, 435 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 32 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Harbor and home

Subject

• Furniture > Massachusetts > History > 18th century > Catalogs
• Furniture > Massachusetts > History > 19th century > Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-428) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Leslie Greene Bowman -- Preface / Brock Jobe -- Ch. 1. An Introduction to Southeastern Massachusetts and Its Furniture / Brock Jobe -- Ch. 2. Shaped by the Sea: Cabinetmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts / Jack O'Brien and Derin Bray -- Ch. 3. Clockmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts: The Bailey Family 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 and Martha Willoughby -- App. Southeastern Massachusetts Cabinetmakers and Clockmakers: 1710-1850 / Gary R. Sullivan.

ISBN

• 9780912724683 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0912724684 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008037301
• 99933368856

OCLC

• ocn244701504
• 244701504
• SCSB-5465230

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries