Review by Robert A. Leath
Southern Furniture, 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Figure 1

Introductory panel to the exhibition, Furniture of the American South. (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)

Figure 2

Sideboard table attributed to William Buckland and William Bernard Sears, Richmond County, Virginia, 1761–1771. Cherry with beech. H. 32", W. 453/8", D. 311/4". (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)

Figure 3

Tall clock attributed to Peter Rife and Peter Whipple, Southern Valley of Virginia, probably Montgomery (now Pulaski) County, ca. 1810. Mahogany, mahogany veneer and cherry with tulip poplar, oak, black walnut, holly, cherry, maple, horn, bone, silver, and brass; iron, brass, and steel movement. H. 1081/2", W. 25", D. 15". (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)

Figure 4

Interior view of the southern furniture exhibition showing four important masterpieces, a mahogany easy chair, 1765–1775, and mahogany double chest with open carved pediment, 1765–1780, made in Charleston, South Carolina, on display in the Carolina Low Country gallery, juxtaposed against a painted chest, 1795–1807, and tall clock, 1800, by Johannes Spitler of Shenandoah (now Page) County, Virginia, in the gallery on furniture of the southern Backcountry. (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.)