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Side chair. Probably birch with original brown stain. Flattened serpentine crest rail over two serpentine slats; rush seat . Rests on straight front legs with beaded outer edge with box stretchers, the front of which has a beaded edge.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
birch (wood)
Chippendale
Birch
Chippendale
CHAIR
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
37 1/2 x 18 x 14 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.493
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Stool Accession Number 1986.30
Title Chippendale Side Chair Accession Number 1986.64.1
Title Chippendale Side Chair Accession Number 1986.64.2
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