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- catalog abstract "This important book, the result of discoveries made during an exhaustive survey of Portsmouth furniture at more than 210 sites throughout the country, places the furniture makers of Portsmouth alongside those of Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York as creators of some of the finest early American furniture. The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), a regional museum with more than forty properties, owns seven historic houses in the Portsmouth area. The objects in these houses constitute the largest collection of Portsmouth furniture anywhere. The present volume results from intensive study of SPNEA's Portsmouth holdings, surviving documents, and objects in both private and public collections. The research has uncovered much about the mercantile aristocracy that purchased and used the furniture and about the community of craftsmen who adapted English designs to satisfy their customers' tastes. With essays on the social history of Portsmouth, furniture production in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and entries for 117 objects, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the defining characteristics of Portsmouth furniture from 1670 to 1840.".
- catalog contributor b3810342.
- catalog contributor b3810343.
- catalog contributor b3810344.
- catalog contributor b3810345.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This important book, the result of discoveries made during an exhaustive survey of Portsmouth furniture at more than 210 sites throughout the country, places the furniture makers of Portsmouth alongside those of Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York as creators of some of the finest early American furniture. The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), a regional museum with more than forty properties, owns seven historic houses in the Portsmouth area. The objects in these houses constitute the largest collection of Portsmouth furniture anywhere. The present volume results from intensive study of SPNEA's Portsmouth holdings, surviving documents, and objects in both private and public collections. The research has uncovered much about the mercantile aristocracy that purchased and used the furniture and about the community of craftsmen who adapted English designs to satisfy their customers' tastes. With essays on the social history of Portsmouth, furniture production in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and entries for 117 objects, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the defining characteristics of Portsmouth furniture from 1670 to 1840.".
- catalog extent "454 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Portsmouth furniture.".
- catalog identifier "0874516072".
- catalog identifier "0874516080 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Portsmouth furniture.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by University Press of New England,".
- catalog relation "Portsmouth furniture.".
- catalog spatial "New Hampshire Portsmouth".
- catalog subject "749.2142/6 20".
- catalog subject "Furniture New Hampshire Portsmouth Exhibitions.".
- catalog subject "NK2438.P67 P67 1992".
- catalog title "Portsmouth furniture : masterworks from the New Hampshire seacoast / organized and edited by Brock Jobe ; with contributions by Diane Carlberg Ehrenpreis ... [et al.] ; photographs by David Bohl.".
- catalog type "Exhibition catalogs. fast".
- catalog type "text".