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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2011.01.44 |
Object Name |
Chair |
Date |
c1860 |
Year Range to |
1867 |
Features |
Painted fancy chair with a red and green floral design. Half spindle back Windsor chair with slightly splayed legs and tapered feet. Rolled seat rail with rounded edges; crest rail is decorated with a floral stencil which includes a light red rose in the centre; connected by a green vine stencilled on either side with leaf motifs. This pattern is continued on the lower rail and down the sides. A golden painted stripe on the base of the seat as well and each of the inner spindles. Waterfall seat form with moulding applied to the front. Paper label under seat "John Gibbard, Cabinetmaker, Napanee, Canada West" |
Object Story |
Chair made by Gibbard Furniture. Gibbard Furniture was a company founded by John Gibbard who was born in 1813. Around adulthood he became an apprentice to his Father, who was a carpenter and millwright. In 1836 John Gibbard moved to Napanee where he at one point worked for John Benson installing doors and windows for Benson's store. In 1860 he leased a mill from William Bartels where he made furniture as well as doors, coffins, and more. His business grew throughout his life and managed to overcome the significant challenge of two separate fires. John Gibbard passed away in 1908. Gibbard Furniture remained in the his family until 1940 when it was purchased by Jack McPherson a former Gibbard sale's manager. It remained in the McPherson family until 2009 when the factory was shut down. |
People |
Gibbard, John Benson, John Bartels, William Mcpherson McPherson, Jack |
Subjects |
Furniture industry Chairs Furniture |
Search Terms |
Gibbard's Furniture Gibbard Gibbard's Furniture Gibbards |