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1860-1900
GUSN-172661
Stool, Chippendale Style, with claw and ball feet, carved knees, upholstered with flame stitch embroidery. Rectangular form. Upholstered over seat rails in machine bargello of muted blues, rusts, tans and greens. Four cabriole legs with floral and leaf carved knees and knee brackets with fringed brass studded border with cartouche shapes on knees with leaf from carving flowing out of one end down the leg.
stools (seating furniture)
Stool
Original to Governor John Langdon House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
Bequest of Mrs. Woodbury Langdon
1966.320
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