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Chippendale side chair. Side chair. Mahogany with birch rear seat rail maple front and side seat rails; yellow pine (probably pitch pine) corner blocks. Serpentine crest rail with central flat shell carving and carved molded ears. Pierced splat with owl's eye central design. Leather-upholstered seat lined with single row of brass nails. Ogee brackets glued and nailed to upper front corners of front legs. Marlborough legs with beaded edges. Raked back legs. H-shaped stretchers with beaded edges.
side chairs
mahogany (wood)
birch (wood)
maple (wood)
yellow pine (wood, general)
Chair
Original To Bowman-Carney House (Dresden, Me.),
Bright, George, 1726-1805
Boston, MA
Gift of Miss Florence L. Bixby
1980.74.2
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