Browsing Pearse Collection by Subject "17th Century"

Browsing Pearse Collection by Subject "17th Century"

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  • Chairs 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968) (2008-10-28)
    Photograph depicting four different types of caned stinkwood chairs. From left to right: a Queen Anne tub or corner chair with tapered legs (c. 1730), a Tulbach chair with ball turned legs (c. 1700), a Louis XV or Huguenot ...
  • Day bed, Groote Schuur 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-10-31)
    Photograph depicting a late 17th century Jacobean-style day bed from Groote Schuur. The legs and rails are barley sugar turned, and the head and seat are caned. See also description on p. 18, and Fig. 27 on p. 23 of the ...
  • Interior 
    Janssens Elinga, Pieter (2009-06-12)
    From the Pearse Collection: "Interior" by Pieter Janssens Elinga, showing a typical Dutch interior with a woman sitting in a chair reading. The floor and ceiling are both of wooden boards; two leather-covered chairs flank ...
  • Paternal advice 
    Ter Borch, Gerard (2009-04-14)
    Photograph of a painting by Gerard ter Borch of a domestic scene in a bedroom. The seated father is apparently admonishing his daughter, who is dressed in a beautifully rendered satin dress. The mother is sipping from a ...
  • Settee, Koopmans De Wet House 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-11-03)
    Photograph depicting a late 17th century caned settee from the Koopmans De Wet House. The legs, foot rails and arm supports are plain. The back has a shaped top rail and plain bottom rail filled in with plain slats. See ...
  • Seventeenth century interior 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968) (2008-10-17)
    Photograph of a 17th century interior at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. It features several pieces of furniture, including a built-in bed, chest, chairs, table and cupboard.
  • Tulbagh chair 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-11-11)
    Photograph depicting a late 17th century Tulbagh-type chair from the Koopmans de Wet House, with caned seat and backrest. It has peg top turned legs and rails. The framework to the back is richly carved; the stretchers are plain.
  • V.O.C. plate 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-10-21)
    Photograph by Arthur Elliot depicting a typical blue-and-white V.O.C. dish in the Chinese Wanli style, provenance unknown. Decorated in underglaze blue, the monogram in the well is surrounded by pomegranates, cammellias ...
  • Woman at her spinning wheel 
    Unknown (2009-06-12)
    From the Pearse Collection: "Woman at her spinning wheel" by Esaias Boursse, 1661, on canvas, housed in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painting depicting a typical Dutch interior, with a man and a woman sitting by a fireplace.