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Fancy side chair. Painted. Windsor form. Back comprised of three horizontal splats above five turned spindles. Upper splat stencilled with melon and grape designs with freehand black outlining; the ground is yellow; there is a putty-grained rounded seat above 4 outturned legs and plain stretchers. Both legs and stretchers have incised boards. Made at the Newburyport Chair Factory.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Fancy
Maple
Pine
Painted
CHAIR, SIDE
On the underside of the seat is a maker's paper label: ""Warranted/CHAIRS/Made and sold at the/Newburyport Chair Factory/by/Nathan Haskell,/Agent for the Proprietors.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Haskell, Nathan (Maker)
Newburyport Chair Factory
Newburyport, MA, USA; Newburyport, MA
33 1/2 x 18 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1453
Massachusetts (United States)
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