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The chair has a scrolling crest rail over a vasiform splat and shaped stiles. It has a leather upholstered seat, set into a seat rail and raised on cabriole front legs with carved and scrolled knees and pad feet. It has a straight, rounded back and legs with "hoof" feet.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
leather
upholstering
walnut (wood)
veneer
Queen Anne
walnut (wood)
Walnut
Mahogany Veneer
Leather
Queen Anne
Upholstered
CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
39 x 20 3/4 x 16 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.445
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