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Shield back chair with original webbing and horsehair upholstery. Arched brass nail pattern along seat edge.
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
upholstering
Hepplewhite
Chair
"Hepplewaite shield back chair:/Cole appraisal, spring 1989: $650/Made in Hartford, perhaps by Nneilan & Adamas (Rising monied went to Hartford to buy)./ Nice clean chair./Richard Nylander, S.P.N.E.A. (expertise in wallpaper), Nov. 16, 1989:/ 1790-1800. In original state: horsehair cloth upholstery, webbing underneath, "brass nails."/ Impressed, he, not J.B.D. pointed chair out, took picture for S.P.N.E.A./ Helen Amanda Shove Boyd, ca 1940 From Bull family" (Typed provenance label affixed to inner chair rail beneath seat.)
Drury, William, Mr.
25.2
Unknown
Woodbury, Connecticut, USA
38 1/2 x 21 x 18 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of William Drury
2009.13.2
Woodbury (Litchfield county, Connecticut)
Connecticut (United States)
Connecticut (United States)
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