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Side Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

ca. 1760

GUSN

GUSN-3850

Description

Owl's eye splats; turned stretchers; champhered stiles; cabriole legs with pronounced knee terminating in pad feet with pronounced ring above pads; slip seats with original upholstery.

Details

Descriptive Terms

side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
birch (wood)
mahogany (wood)
Chippendale
Chair
Chair, Side
Chair, Side

Inscription

""I"" on front seat rail

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

37 5/8 x 23 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.202.1

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