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1770-1790
GUSN-17476
One of a set of six side chairs. Set includes five side chairs and one arm chair. Mahogany with soft maple front and side seat rails; birch rear seat rail. Scrolled leaf carving and pierced ribbons on serpentine crest rail. Scrolled leaf carving repeated on ears. Saddle seat. Upholstered in green satin damask. H-shaped stretchers. Rests on beaded Marlborough legs.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
silver maple (wood)
birch (wood)
Mahogany
Maple
Damask
CHAIR
Unknown
Boston, MA; Salem, MA
36 1/2 x 23 1/8 x 18 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
1948.131A
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Possibly
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