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Side chair. Mahogany with white pine corner blocks. Serpentine crest rail with central shell carving and carved molded ears. Stiles have rounded backs. Pierced splat with owl-eye central design. Original loose seat with small brackets nailed at rear corners of seat rails. Rests on creased cabriole legs terminate in ball and claw feet with raked claws and rear club feet.
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
eastern white pine (wood)
Chippendale
Chair
Chair, Side
Chair, Side
Original to Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
1949.191G
35.1932
Unknown
MA, Boston-Salem area; Boston, MA; Salem, MA
38 3/8 x 23 7/16 x 17 1/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Mary Thacher
1949.191G
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly
Possibly
Title Chair seat cover fragment Accession Number NULL
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