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Settee

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1800-1820

GUSN

GUSN-11315

Description

Rod back settee with bamboo-turned styles, spindles, armrests, arm supports, ten legs and box stretchers. Plank seat with a incised line painted canary yellow.

Details

Descriptive Terms

settees
multiple-seating furniture
hardwood
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Windsor chairs
Hardwood
Pine
Painted
Turned
Windsor
SETTEE

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

33 x 80.25 x 17.5 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1662

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