Side chair. Black walnut. Yoke crest with flat-facade stiles. Vasiform splat and cavetto splat shoe capped by beadslip seat. Scalloped front seat rail. Scooped side seat rails. Block-and-spindle side stretchers; bulbous medial and rear stretchers. Cabriole front legs with ogee brackets; turned feet on thick disks.
side chairs
black walnut (wood)
varnish
upholstered seats
Queen Anne Style
Chair
"VI"
Used At Josiah Smith Tavern Main House,
Unknown
Boston, MA, Boston area
41 3/4 x 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ellen M. and Alice E. Jones
1973.324
Weston (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Title Side Chair Accession Number 1973.323
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