Corner or Roundabout chair. Black walnut with white pine and soft maple frame. Molded crest rail with two solid vasiform back splats. Vase-and-ring turned stiles. Rounded front seat with plain skirt. Carved central knee block terminates in a cabriole leg with pad foot. Swelled stretchers with block and ball central lap joints round-tenoned into legs. Carved corner brackets surmount turned rear legs that terminate in pad feet. Originally contained a chamber pot.
corner chairs
black walnut (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
Chair
Chair, Corner
Chair, Corner
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Boston, MA
30 3/4 x 26 5/8 x 23 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.264
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