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Side chair. Mahogany; soft maple front and side seat rails; beech corner braces. Serpentine crest rail with vegetal carving. Scrolled pierced splat with ogee arch central piercing. Rests on Marlborough legs. Rope beaded edge on stiles and legs. "H" stretcher and rear stretcher, inscribed "Wallace Burke" in pencil on inside of rail.
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
beech (wood)
Chippendale
Chair
Quincy, Abigail Phillips, 1745-1798
Quincy, Josiah, 1744-1775
Unknown
Boston, MA
37 15/16 x 23 3/16 x 17 3/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Edmund Quincy
1971.227
Massachusetts (United States)
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