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Easy Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1755-1770

GUSN

GUSN-171800

Description

Wing chair with arms, cabriole legs with pad feet. H and rear stretchers. Queen Anne. Low arch crest blends into top of wings which terminate in vertically scrolled arm rests. Loose down cushion on seat platform. Broad flat knees of cabriole legs with ogee brackets. Pad feet with circular cushion beneath.

Details

Descriptive Terms

easy chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
black walnut (wood)
maple (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
birch (wood)
Chair, Easy

Associated Building

Used At Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Newport, RI; New London, CT; Norwich, CT

Dimensions

51 3/8 x 36 3/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Guido R. Perara

Accession Number

1971.64

Places

Possibly New York state (United States)
Possibly Rhode Island (United States)
Probably
Possibly
Possibly

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