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Side chair. Poplar posts and bannisters; arch seat rails, splat rail, and stretchers; maple crest and splat rail. Arched, molded crest. Vasiform splat. Splat rail protrudes downward. Grooves outline crest and splat rail. Rushed seat rerushed in late twentieth century. Block-and-baluster-turned legs surmounted by turned conical points and ring turnings at upper extremities beneath seat. Seven turned stretchers. Spanish feet.
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
poplar (wood)
rush (material)
William and Mary
Chair
Chair
Unknown
MA, Boston-Salem area; Boston, MA; Salem, MA
48 1/4 x 19 7/8 x 14 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Estate of Florence Evans Bushee
1976.236
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
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