1810-1830
GUSN-11397
Each comprised of flattened reeded, iron elements. The settee is of double back form with an interlaced undulating crest and overlapping "loop" lower back on a horizontally slatted seat supported by stiles that continue to raked back legs. The arms begin at the top of the back stile and continue to form the front legs. The legs are joined by side red form stretchers and a conforming arched medial stretcher. The arm chair of conforming design. Both painted white.
settees
chairs (furniture forms)
multiple-seating furniture
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
Sheraton
Iron
Painted
Sheraton
SETTEE AND CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1724.1,2
Unknown
34 x 43 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1724.1-2
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