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拍品專文
This sofa, with its square back and reeded crestrail, arm supports and legs, was fashionable in Maryland from 1815 to the early 1830s. It exhibits characteristics from both George Sheraton's Drawing Book (1793), plate 35 and Massachusetts and New York earlier square-back sofas.
The arm supports are detached from the sofa frame and continue to the front legs, a significant development in sofa design illustrated in Sheraton's Drawing Book. Also apparent on this sofa, with its deeply carved reeding and substantial turnings, is the movement toward the Classical period away from the lighter more attenuated turnings and reeding of the Federal period.
This sofa is virtually identical to a sofa made by William Camp for Dr. William Hilleary (1775-1834) of Frederick County in 1817. The Hilleary sofa and its original bill of sale from William Camp are in the collection of The Maryland Historical Society. For a discussion of William Camp and other related sofas, see Gregory R. Weidman, Furniture in Maryland, 1740-1940 (Baltimore, 1984), pp.161-164, fig. 123.
The arm supports are detached from the sofa frame and continue to the front legs, a significant development in sofa design illustrated in Sheraton's Drawing Book. Also apparent on this sofa, with its deeply carved reeding and substantial turnings, is the movement toward the Classical period away from the lighter more attenuated turnings and reeding of the Federal period.
This sofa is virtually identical to a sofa made by William Camp for Dr. William Hilleary (1775-1834) of Frederick County in 1817. The Hilleary sofa and its original bill of sale from William Camp are in the collection of The Maryland Historical Society. For a discussion of William Camp and other related sofas, see Gregory R. Weidman, Furniture in Maryland, 1740-1940 (Baltimore, 1984), pp.161-164, fig. 123.