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Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1765-1790

GUSN

GUSN-245846

Description

Back stool; Chippendale; upholstered back and seat of yellow moreen; back has flat arched crest; serpentine front seat rail; outward curved side rails; mounted and beaded square front legs chamfered on inside edge from just below seat rail; rear legs raked inward; back moderately raked inward; plain rectangular stretchers placed vertically; face flush with outside face of legs; stretchers in "H" pattern; center stretcher half dovetailed into sides.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
Chair

Associated Building

Used At Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

37 1/8 x 20 9/16 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Guido Perera

Accession Number

1972.268

Places

United States
Possibly New England (United States) [general region]

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