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Roundabout chair. Maple, painted black, rush seat. Semicircular arm rail ending on outwardly turned handholds. Three ring-and-baluster turned larm supports. Plain tubular stiles. Rests on plain tubular legs below seat rail; front leg has one decorative ring-and-baluster turning just below the seat.
corner chairs
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Chair
Chair, Corner
Chair, Corner
"Artful Stories": This is the chair in which Mary Buckingham sits in the portrait above. According to her grandson, she purchased it during an antiquing trip to Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1890s. In the eighteenth century, these chairs were often used at desks and were called roundabout chairs.
17.1983
Unknown
Massachusets, United States
42 x 22 x 19 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears
1987.1444
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
Title Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Cutting Buckingham Accession Number 1987.1460
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