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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 262520, member: 5066&quot;]This chair below, once thought to have been built in Charleston SC is now almost certainly proven to have been built in coastal Virginia. How did this researcher begin his quest to find out for sure? The cherry primary wood, it always bothered him that the attribution &amp; date for Charleston was wrong because cherry was not used in early Charleston furniture. This turned cherry chair was built in the Chesapeake region Virginia, C 1640-1660 and is in fact the earliest known piece of southern furniture extant. Indeed, this chair could very well be the earliest known piece of American furniture ever.</p><p>It sold at Christies a few years ago when it was still a &quot;Charleston&quot; chair to the Houston Museum for what is now a real bargain, 288k. If the recent research is anywhere near correct &amp; i think it is, this chair is now in the priceless category. The feet have lost a couple inches but that&#039;s &quot;normal&quot; for a piece this old.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; The earliest turned chairs of Plimoth and Massachusetts Colonies tend to be dated in contemporary scholarship 1640-1660. Should they happen to date on the later end of that period and the Virginia chair under study should happen to date on the earlier end of its spectrum, then it would likely be the earliest American chair. This is expressed as a potential for the object, not as a conclusive fact. In fact, the writer anticipates that more seventeenth century chairs will emerge with a Virginia attribution.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mesdajournal.org/2014/provenance-profile-rediscovery-earliest-southern-chair/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mesdajournal.org/2014/provenance-profile-rediscovery-earliest-southern-chair/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mesdajournal.org/2014/provenance-profile-rediscovery-earliest-southern-chair/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]82284[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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