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Ball and claw feet on cabriole legs with leafy scrolled knees; back legs squared, chamfered and raked; rectangular seat rails with slip seat; square stiles have beaded front edges and scrolled ears; curvilinear crest rail; splat is pierced with scrolled ribbon carving with oval handhold pierced at top of splat; tan upholstered seat cushion has crewel-worked basket with flowers and birds.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
crewelwork (technique)
mahogany (wood)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
Chippendale
flower baskets
Mahogany
Chippendale
Crewelworked
Fruit Basket
Bird
CHAIR
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
40.063 x 23.813 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.523
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