F 19:  Pembroke Table , ca. 1790 - 1800
Size:  27 3/4" x 29 1/4" x 19 1/4"
Current Location:  Study, 1st Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label: Yes, Undated; Interior of slide drawer
Woods:  Primary: Mahogany, Secondary:  Yellow Pine and Oak
Notes: 1original brass pull.  Standard Shaw form, perhaps ready-made for sale at shop.
Provenance:  Hon. John Johnson, Annapolis, Attorney General Maryland;  Son Reverdy Johnson, born in Annapolis in 1796, Attorney General of the U.S. and U.S. Senator;  Reverdy Johnson descendants;  Mrs. J. H. Flood, Winchester, Virginia;  Hammond-Harwood House, 1949
Sources:  John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983;  pages 82-83

F 42:  Sideboard Table, ca. 1780-1785
Size:  36 3/4" x 54" x 22 1/2" 
Current Location:  Game Room, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany, Secondary:  Tulip Poplar
Notes:  Considered to be the earliest piece of Shaw furniture in the collection--a more transitional piece than the more federal pieces.  Includes meticulously gauged fluting across the apron and down the legs, terminating in swelled spade feet.  Also includes small, finely carved rosettes on the apron.  Left side includes drawer with original brass.
Provenance:  Early history unknown.  Forbes family of Prince George. Co. to J. Scwarz to Hammond-Harwood House in 1950.
Sources:  John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983;  pages 67-68

F 55:  Linen Press, 1795
Size: 80 1/4" x 51 3/8" x 24 3/4"
Current Location:  Upper Passage, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  Yes, Dated 1795 B, Interior of Right Door
Woods:  Primary: Mahogany, Secondary:  Tulip Poplar, Yellow Pine
Notes:  8 original brasses.  Tiny acorns adorn corners at top of dentil. 
Provenance:  20th century belonged to Frick family of Baltimore.  Gift to Hammond-Harwood House in 1952 from Mrs. T. Courtney Jenkins (Dorothy Frick)
Sources:  John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983;  page 104

F 72:  Chest of 4 graduated drawers, 1795
Size:  32 1/2" x 36 1/4" x 20 1/4"
Current Location:   North East Chamber, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label: Yes, Dated 1795;  Interior of top drawer
Woods:  Primary: Mahogany, Secondary: Tulip Poplar and Yellow Pine
Notes:  8 original brasses
Provenance:  Randall family of Annapolis to Hammond-Harwood House in 1951.

F 165:  Card Table, ca. 1790
Size:  29" x 36" x 18"
Current Location:  Study, 1st Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  Yes, Undated;  Located on Fly Rail
Woods: Primary:  Mahogany, Secondary:   Tulip Poplar, Oak Fly Rail and Yellow Pine
Notes:  Attached dark green baize on playing surface
Provenance: Mrs. Miles White, Baltimore, 1930s to daughter Francis White.  Gifted to Hammond-Harwood House in 1973 from Mrs. Francis White
Sources: Magazine Antiques, February 1997, pages 362 - 377;  John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983.

F 167.1-2:  Phoenix Chairs, ca. 1790-1797
Size:  37 5/" x 20 1/4" x 18 3/4"
Current Location: Upper Passage, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label: None
Woods: Primary:  Mahogany,  Secondary:  Tulip poplar
Notes: Identical to chairs owned by Winterthur.  Many of these chairs in private ownership.
Provenance:  Early history unknown. Donor suggested chairs were purchased at 1925 Harwood House auction by Flora Duval Sayles, but no record of the Sayles name exists in the account.  Chairs donated back to museum in 1973 by Marion Lee Duval.  
Sources:  See nearly identical chairs in John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983;  pages 160-163.

F 169:  Cellarette, ca. 1795
Size:  29 3/4"  x 28 1/4" x 14 3/4"
Current Location:  Dining Room, 1st floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None (On the underside of lift top on similar example)
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany,  Secondary:  Tulip Poplar and Yellow Pine
Notes:  Interior has nine partitions for bottles; 3 false front drawers with 3 original brasses;  Interior sliding tray to cover and/or hold bottles;  Nearly identical labeled version in private ownership
Provenance:  Early history unknown.  J.K Beard prior to 1930.  Dunlop family of Colonial Heights, Virginia after 1930.  Purchased by the Crawford family of North Carolina in 1971.  Sold to anonymous purchaser in Richmond, Virginia shortly thereafter and then to MESDA.  MESDA to Hammond-Harwood House in 1977
Sources:  See nearly identical cellarette in John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983; pages 101-102

F 171:  Desk and Bookcase, ca. 1797 (Loan)
Size:  98 3/4" x 43 1/2" x 22"
Current Location:  Study, 1st floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  Yes, Undated
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany,  Secondary:  Tulip Poplar and Yellow Pine
Notes:  Perfect proportions between top and bottom;  Delicately pierced scroll pediment with inlaid sunbursts/stars and crowning center finial.  VERY faint interior tack marks indicate possible presence of curtains.
Provenance:  Dr. John T. Schaaf (practiced medicine with John Shaw's son George);  To Arthur Schaaf in 1819;  Presumably in the Schaaf family until 1870 when it was acquired by A.C. Pickerell.  Late 19th and early 20th century history unknown.  Loaned to the Hammond-Harwood House from anonymous lender in 1980.
Sources:  See John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983, pages 138-139.

F 172:  Arm Chair, ca. 1795 (Loan)
Size: 37" x 22" x 19"
Current Location:  Parlor, 1st Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods: Primary:  Mahogany, Secondary:  Tulip Poplar 
Notes:  Delicate eagle inlay medallion at top of tulip-shaped splat.  Style similar to chairs made for the State House with the exception of the inlay.  Tapered legs with light wood inlay running down.  Rounded reverse curve armrests.  Other examples of this type of chair were made in large sets.
Provenance:  General history unknown.  Loan from anonymous lender to Hammond-Harwood House in 1980.  
Sources:  See John Shaw:  Cabinetmaker of Annapolis, BMA, 1983, pages 98-99, 130-132 for similar examples.

F 173.1-2:  Side Chairs, ca. 1785
Size: 40" x 20" 17"
Current Location:  Upper Passage, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods: Primary:  Mahogany,  Secondary:  Yellow Pine and Oak
Notes:  Back consists of three narrow splats, all which multiple piercings.  An inlaid patera rests in the middle of the center splat.  
Provenance:  Possible connection of the chair to Charles Carroll the Barrister of Annapolis.  Formerly in the collection of R.T.Halsey of St. John's College.  Loan to Hammond-Harwood House in 1980.

F 180:  Pembroke Table, ca. 1790 - 1800
Size:   27 3/4" x 29 1/4" x 19 1/4"
Current Location:  Study Chamber, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  Yes, Bottom of Interior Drawer
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany,   Secondary:  Tulip Poplar, Yellow Pine, Oak
Notes:  1 original brass handle on false drawer, spade feet, canted corners on drop leaves
Provenance:  Probably owned by Chase - Loockerman families in the 19th century.  Hester Ann Harwood owned the piece in the early 20th century.  Presumably, the table was part of Harwood's estate during the 1925 auction at the Hammond-Harwood House and was sold to Mrs. D. St. Pierre Gaillard.  The Gaillard estate donated the table back to the museum in 1991.  From the actual Account of the sale, however, it is difficult to determine if the pembroke table was among the items the Gaillard's purchased.  Records indicate they purchased a clock for $785.00, 3 chairs for $555.00, and a chest of drawers for $265.00.  The chest of drawers could be the table in question, but it is difficult to ascertain conclusively.

F 192:  Game Table, ca. 1790 - 1800 (Loan)
Size:  30" x 22" (when closed) x 17"
Current Location:  Game Room, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany, Secondary:  Tulip Poplar
Notes:  Serpentine fronted card table with canted corners.  Thin, alternating band of light-dark wood inlay along bottom of apron.  Top of table missing original baize, revealing construction details:  one of top is solid mahogany, the other side is tulip poplar.  This is a variation of the tulip core and mahogany facing typically used in Shaw's game table construction.  It is possible that the table  piece is a companion piece to one owned privately in Baltimore and is only slightly different than two other serpentine card tables, one of which is maintained by the Baltimore Museum of Art.  Nonetheless, the table could just have easily been a more standard, ready-made form available on the floor in the Shaw shop.  Only four of these kinds of tables are known to exist.
Provenance:  The early history of this table is unknown.  Purchased by present owner in the 1980s.  Loaned to the Hammond-Harwood House in 2002.

Shaw Attributions

F 27:  Sideboard, ca. 1800 - 1810
Size:  78" x 25" x 39" 
Current Location:  Dining Room, 1st Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods:  Primary: Mahogany,  Secondary:  Holly and Satinwood
Notes:  Original oval brasses.  Unusual inlay down tapered legs stops without being squared off.
Provenance:  Belonged to Harwood / Chase families in the 19th century.  Part of 1925 lot of goods sold at auction after the death of Hester Ann Harwood.  The inventory of her estate placed this "Sheraton" sideboard in the Dining Room, valued at 200.00.  At auction the following year, it was purchased by A.W. Clark for the Garven Collection at Yale for $1325.00.  The piece was purchased by the Hammond-Harwood House in 1949.

F 174:  Chest of Drawers, ca. 1795
Size:  
Current Location:  North East Bed Chamber, 2nd Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label: None
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany,  Secondary:  Oak
Notes:  This piece, traditional considered to be one of Shaw's, has recently come under fire because the use of oak as the secondary wood, differences in dovetailing, and modification of brass pulls.  This may be an object of English origin.
Provenance: Early history unknown.  Loan to Hammond-Harwood House in 1980 from anonymous lender.

F 119.1-5:  Side Chairs, ca. 1780
Size:  36" x 21" x 17" 
Current Location:  Lower Passage, 1st Floor Hammond-Harwood House
Label:  None
Woods:  Primary:  Mahogany
Notes:  Straight legs, elegant serpentine top rail with ears, pierced splat with ovoid connectors.  These chairs have long been thought to have been in Annapolis, possibly from Shaw's hand.  
Provenance:  Early history unknown.  Magruder family of Annapolis to Joe Kindig to Hammond-Harwood House in 1959.