table
Ross Memorial Museum
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| Nom de l'objet : | table |
| Artiste ou artisan : | Nisbet, Thomas |
| Type de l'objet : | night |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | furnishings |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | furniture |
| Matériaux : | wood, mahogany wood, walnut? wood, pine: metal, brass |
| Technique de fabrication : | turned veneered inlay |
| Numéro d'accession : | 76.35 |
| Nom de la collection : | Ross |
| Province d'origine : | New Brunswick? |
| Pays d'origine : | Canada? |
| Date de début de production : | 1829 C? |
| Description : | Small and rectangular shaped. Stands on four turned legs. Brass collar and casters. Mahogany and walnut veneer on pine. Two drawers on front with two small wood pulls on each. Key. Brass keyhole with a border of walnut. Base of cabinet has a stripe of light coloured wood inlay work. Dovetail joints and railed drawer construction. |
| Commentaires : | Acquired by the Town of St. Andrews, May 1946. A Canadian teaching in United States of America and has researched Nisbet furniture says "doubtful if that it is Nisbet". Henry Phipps Ross and Sarah Juliette Ross, the American benefactors of the Ross Memorial Museum were avid collectors both on their world travels and locally when they were at their summer estate, Rossmont, near St. Andrews, New Brunswick. They made many of their purchases of furniture between 1902 (when they bought Rossmont) and 1914. Arthur Senna, who worked on the estate often searched for antiques for them, sometimes going as far as Halifax. Henry and Juliette also scoured the countryside in and around St. Andrews themselves, buying directly from local residents. Henry's diary shows just how keen they were about collecting and researching their finds. "1912 Feb. 24, sofa table and chairs come & we go into ecstasies over them....Feb. 25 We read up on Chippendale, Hepplewhite & Sheraton... Mar. 14 Arthur comes at noon...he displays his plunder of samovar, tea kettles & describes purchases-sideboard, etc." None of the furniture attributed to Thomas Nisbet in the Ross collection is labelled by Nisbet but many experts have looked at the pieces over the years and believe them to be by Nisbet. |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Étiquette ou poinçon : | Marked in red on bottom underside of top drawer: "Mrs. Chaplan". Also "Chirmas BDC 1829". Other illegible writing also on bottom of drawer. "HPR 89" stamped on bottom edge below drawers |
| Établissement : | Ross Memorial Museum |
| Ville de l'établissement : | St Andrews |
| Province de l'établissement : | New Brunswick |
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