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Connecticut Valley furniture : Eliphalet Chapin and his contemporaries, 1750-1800 / Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti ; foreword by Patricia E. Kane ; essays by Susan P. Schoelwer, Robert F. Trent and Philip D. Zimmerman ; edited by Susan P. Schoelwer.

Title
Connecticut Valley furniture : Eliphalet Chapin and his contemporaries, 1750-1800 / Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti ; foreword by Patricia E. Kane ; essays by Susan P. Schoelwer, Robert F. Trent and Philip D. Zimmerman ; edited by Susan P. Schoelwer.
Author
Kugelman, Thomas P.
Publication
Hartford : Connecticut Historical Society Museum ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Kugelman, Alice K.
  • Lionetti, Robert
  • Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast
  • Trent, Robert
  • Zimmerman, Philip D.
  • Connecticut Historical Society Museum
Description
xii, 551 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Subject
  • Chapin, Eliphalet, 1741-1807
  • 1700-1799
  • Furniture > Connecticut > History > 18th century
  • Cabinetmakers > Connecticut River Valley
  • Furniture > Connecticut River Valley > History > 18th century
Genre/Form
  • Catalogs
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Director's foreword / David Kahn -- Foreword / Patricia E. Kane -- Introduction / Alice K. Kugelman -- 1. Prologue : experimenting with the Queen Anne style, 1730-1750 -- Major Connecticut Valley style centers, 1750-1800 -- 2. Wethersfield style -- Wethersfield -- Windsor -- Hartford -- Middletown -- 3. Chapin style -- 4. Colchester style -- 5. Springfield-Northampton style -- 6. Combinations and variations -- Hartford -- Glastonbury -- Suffield -- Farmington Valley -- 7. Epilogue : end of an era, 1790-1810 -- Hartford -- Hartford County -- Beyond Hartford County -- European origins of eighteenth-century New England case pieces / Robert F. Trent -- Connecticut River Valley woodworking dynasties with Chapin connections / Robert F. Trent -- Writings on Eliphalet Chapin : a case study in American furniture history / Susan P. Schoelwer -- craftsman's life : new evidence on Eliphalet Chapin / Susan P. Scholewer and Dawn Hutchins Bobryk -- Method in early American furniture identification / Philip D. Zimmerman -- Beyond regionalism : town history and Connecticut furniture / Susan P. Schoelwer -- Selected cabinetmaker biographes / Edited by Julie M. Muniz.
OCLC
  • 62321204
  • SCSB-10857976
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Harvard Library