Side chair. Soft maple, ash rear seat rail. Yoke crest. Vasiform splat. Stiles taper upward from base to crest. Rush seat. Block and baluster-turned front legs with baluster and ring turnings just below seat rail.Swelled turned side stretchers with central turned ring contours. Ball and ring-turned front stretcher. Rests on Spanish feet.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
white ash (wood)
rush (material)
Queen Anne
Chair
Chair, Side
Chair, Side
Unknown
MA, Eastern Massachusetts
40 3/8 x 19 x 18 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Estate of Florence Evans Bushee
1976.232
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
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