Side chair. Ladderback form. Maple. American Shaker. Round side posts with high acorn finials are continuous to rear legs; three arched back splats on round, front legs with tapered feet; double stretchers on three sides; one rear stretcher; rear feet fitted with tilting sockets; wood painted with blotchy graining in red paint (mostly worn); has new woven-tape seat in black and tan.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
turning (shaping process)
weaving
maple (wood)
Shaker (Christian sect)
Maple
Turned
Woven
Mortise & Tenon
Shaker
CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Brown, James S. (Maker)
Lee, MA, USA
38 x 18 1/2 x 14 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1470
Massachusetts (United States)
New York state (United States)
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