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Pair of black-painted Queen Anne bannister-back side chairs, with shaped crest rail with "ears"; above four square tapered rails between two square continuing stiles; the rush seats are on square legs with overhanging top corners, with three conforming stretchers and a spool-turned front stretcher.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
wood (plant material)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
weaving
Queen Anne
Wood
Woven
Turned
Painted
Queen Anne
Chair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
42 1/2 x 19 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1214.1
New Hampshire (United States)
Title Side Chair Accession Number 1991.1214.2
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