American Classical Walnut Campeche Chair , early 19th c., incised crest, padded scrolled arms, curule stretcher base, old leather upholstery, h. 38 3/4 in., w. 24 1/2 in., d. 31 in. Note: The design of this example offered here is influenced by English Regency “Library” chairs and the butaca of Colonial Mexico. The butac chair form of Campeche, a Yucatan port, appeared in North America’s Lower Mississippi River Valley during Spanish rule of the late eighteenth century. A mahogany butac chair, now in the James Madison Museum, was given to Madison by Thomas Jefferson who used it as a model for “Campeachy” chairs made at the Monticello joinery. Examples of the “Campeachy” chair from New York and Philadelphia are in the Winterthur (acc. 1964/0143) and National Gallery of Art (acc. 74.5) collections respectively. Ref.: Holden, Jack, et. al. Furnishing Louisiana, p. 358, fig. 20; Gontar, Cybele. “The American Campeche Chair,” Magazine Antiques, (May 2009), pp. 88-95; Gontar, Cybele. “The Campeche Chair in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” Metropolitan Museum Journal (Vol. 38, 2003), p. 184, fig. 1 and p. 190; www.thejamemadisonmuseum.org

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