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Carver-type chair with turned rear uprights with spool and egg shaped finials joined by a turned crest rail, and rod-like second and lower rails enclosing three turned spindles; turned front posts with ball-shaped hand holds, incised rod-turned arms over a painted splint seat, turned box stretchers (two at front and sides). Painted black.
Carver chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
William and Mary
Oak
Turned
Painted
Splint
William and Mary
Chair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
42 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 15 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.310
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