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A "birdcage" or rod back Windsor chair, with a slightly bowed crest rail over a second crest rail and seven spindles. They lie over a shaped seat and splayed bamboo turned legs with rod turned box stretchers. The legs have been lengthened to make chair desk height. It is painted black.
Windsor chairs
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Windsor chairs
Wood
Painted
Windsor
Chair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
38 7/8 x 20 x 15 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.451
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