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Side chair. Mahogany with maple loose seat frame. Serpentine crest rail. Pierced splat with Gothic tracery, carved columnar scrolls and central leaf motif H-pattern stretcher. Brackets under seat rail. Rests on Marlborough legs. Original web, linen, stuffing, and cover linen remain beneath twentieth-century red and white check upholstery.
chairs (furniture forms)
Chair
Original To Bowman-Carney House (Dresden, Me.),
Bright, George, 1726-1805 (Furniture maker)
36 1/2 x 21 1/8 x 17 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Florence L. Bixby
1980.75.2
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