Side chair. Unidentified woods; paint; caning. Grain-painted and striped. Wide crest rail with rounded shoulders. Shaped stile support. Solid vasiform splat. Scrolled front seat rail with caned seat. Cylindrical side and rear stretchers, rectangular front stretcher. Rests on curved front legs and saber rear legs.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
cane (plant material)
graining
wood (plant material)
Empire (style)
Cane
Painted
Empire
CHAIR
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
32 x 17 3/8 x 16 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.360
Massachusetts (United States)
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