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Side Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

ca. 1820

GUSN

GUSN-4031

Description

Stepdown Windsor style; canted backs with seven spindles, saddle-shaped plank seat; four splayed legs with four stretchers; spindles with faint incising; legs with bamboo turnings; painted black.

Details

Descriptive Terms

side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
incising
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Windsor chairs
Pine
Maple
Windsor
Painted
Incised
CHAIR

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

34.625 x 19 x 15.375 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.344.3

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