Side chair, William and Mary style, with caned back enclosed by elaborately carved and turned stiles with reel and vasiform turnings surmounted by knopped urn-shaped stlylized scrolls centering a double-feather central carving. Conforming rail below caning, side rails enclose caned seat and front stretcher. Entire back canted backwards. Rear legs are block and plain turnings with square feet. Front legs are Flemish scrolls ending in bun feet. Stretchers front and back. Turned "H" front stretcher with blocks at joints.
chairs (furniture forms)
beech (wood)
caning
William and Mary
Chair
Governor John Langdon House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
51 x 18 1/2 x 15 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Mrs. Woodbury Langdon
1966.287
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
New Hampshire (United States)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
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