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Wicker child's commode chair with U-shaped seat; high woven inverted U-shaped back woven with sloping arms topped with a braid of wicker; demi-lune shelf supported by a dowel, connected to chair through sllots in the woven sides near the front stiles; seat solid wood with circular opening in center; enclosed woven skirt with straight front and canted bowed sides and back.
commode chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
American linden (wood)
wicker
Children's furnishing
Wicker
Basswood
CHAIR, POTTY
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
19.625 x 16.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.793
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