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Brown-painted maple and ash bannister-back side chair with double-arched crest rail above 4 baluster-shaped splats (flat in front, curved in back); shaped lower rail above woven splint seat, turned stiles with ball-shaped finials and boldly turned front stretcher with plain front legs and side stretchers; chair painted brown, seat is painted yellow.
banister-back chairs
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
splints (lighting devices)
turning (shaping process)
weaving
maple (wood)
William and Mary
Maple
Ash
Turned
Painted
Woven
Splint
William and Mary
CHAIR
There are two handwritten paper labels on the underside of seat: 1- ""Dean/H.A. Barstow"" 2- NFL ""Chair bought at /Harriet Barstow/Auction- Tauton/July 1950""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
41.25 x 19 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1337
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