Side chair. One of a set of two. Probably birch with brown stain. Flattened sepentine crest rail over two serpentine seats, rush seat. Rests on legs with beaded edge. Front stretcher and box stretcher also display beaded edge.
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
birch (wood)
rush (material)
beading (edging pattern)
beading (process)
Chippendale
rush (material)
Birch
Rush
Beaded
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
Newbury, MA; Newburyport, MA
37 1/2 x 18 x 14 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.64.2
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
Possibly
Title Side chair Accession Number 1986.493
Title Chippendale Side Chair Accession Number 1986.64.1
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