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Side chair. Poplar front legs; ash seat rails. Canted back with grooved yoke-shaped crest, stiles, and splat rail. Outwardly curved carving on crest. Vasiform splat. Modern rush on seat. Ball and ring-turned front stretcher. Bulbous turned side and back stretcher. Block-and-ball-turned front legs.
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
carving (processes)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
rush (material)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
rush (material)
Maple
Ash
Carved
Turned
Painted
Queen Anne
Rush
CHAIR
Unknown
MA, Eastern Massachusetts
40 7/8 x 18 5/16 x 13 1/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
In memory of Chauncey C. Nash
1971.375
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
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