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Chair. Mahogany with birch secondary wood. Wavy serpentine crest rail over three conforming slats. Rush seat. Rests on Marlborough front legs with beaded edge and box stretcher.
chairs (furniture forms)
birch (wood)
mahogany (wood)
rush (material)
Chippendale
rush (material)
Mahogany
Birch
Rush
Chippendale
CHAIR
Displayed in the "Newbury Furniture" exhibit in the SPNEA One Bowdoin Square Gallery May 2, 2000 through October 6, 2000. See object file for complete exhibit label.
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
36 1/4 x 20 1/3 x 15 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.38.2
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
New Hampshire (United States)
Title Chair Accession Number 1986.38.1
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