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Side Chair

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1690-1720

GUSN

GUSN-5074

Description

Carved crest rail; caned back; turned stiles, turned side, back and cross stretchers; bead and reel stretchers, terminating in Spanish feet.

Details

Descriptive Terms

side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
caning
carving (processes)
William and Mary
William and Mary
Carved
Caned
CHAIR

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

48.75 x 24.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.480

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