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The chair has acorn finials on cylinder turned back posts. They are joined by three arched slats and trapezoidal rush seat cylindar turned front posts, and "rod" turned box stretchers with a red-brown surface.
slat-back chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
rush (material)
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
rush (material)
Wood
Rush
Turned
Chair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
37 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 13 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.391
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