Wardrobe

Artist / Maker

Joseph B. Barry & Son: Joseph Brown Barry (1757–1838) and Joseph Brown Barry Jr. (1788–1862), in partnership 1810–1820

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

c. 1810–1812

Dimensions

92-3/4 × 104-3/4 × 24 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany, ebonized mahogany

Secondary woods: tulip poplar, yellow pine, Atlantic white cedar

Surface treatments: silvered brass

Labels / Inscriptions

Label: (engraved by James Akin with copies of Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book designs): “Pier / A Lady’s Dressing Commode / Tables / Joseph B. Barry & Son / Cabinetmakers & Upholsterers [cut out] / No 132 South Second Street / Philadelphia / Drawing / A Sideboard with Knife Cases / Room Chairs / Orders for the West Indies or els[ewhere Executed in the neatest manner and] / Attended to [with the Strictest punctuality. / Drawn by J. Akin].”

Provenance

Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743–1830), Philadelphia, or her nephew and adopted son and heir, Colonel John Hare Powel (b. John Powel Hare, 1786–1856) and Julia de Veaux Powel (1798–1845); By purchase of General Robert Patterson (1792–1881) and Sarah Ann Engle Patterson (1792–1875), 1830s; To their son Robert Emmet Patterson (1830–1906) and Mary Louisa Houston Patterson (1828–1908); To their son Francis Engle Patterson II (1863–1942) and Elizabeth Bella Hoopes Patterson (1864–1936), Waverly Farm, 5008 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE; To their daughter Anna (Nancy) Hoopes Patterson Lindsay (1887–1960) and Joseph Horace Lindsay (1885–1932); To their son Francis Engle Patterson Lindsay (1910–1963) and Louise Robinson Lindsay (1912–1960); To their son William Patterson Lindsay (1937–2013) and Zona Hertzog Lindsay (b. 1936); With New Life Furniture Systems, Newport, DE, and Garrison Grey Kingsley (1947–2023), Mount Cuba, DE, Nov. 2019; With Clark Pearce, Essex, MA; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2020.