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Turned back posts with modified mushroom finials joined by three arched slats (one slat below seat). Rounded front posts and a trapezoidal shaped seat; three red-turned stretchers front and sides, two red-turned stretchers at the back, painted red. A woven string seat.
chairs (furniture forms)
wood (plant material)
painting (coating)
string (fiber product)
turning (shaping process)
Wood
String
Turned
Painted
Chair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
37.5 x 18 x 14 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1648
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