fbpx

Fancy Side Chair

Update Our ticketing, donations, and membership sales portal is down for scheduled maintenance on the afternoon of 4/11.

Search Collections

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1835-1855

GUSN

GUSN-59088

Description

Painted side chair with gold striping and floral decoration with a stylized lyre splat. One of a set of four.

Details

Descriptive Terms

chairs (furniture forms)
painting (coating)
American tulipwood (wood)
Fancy
Chair
Chair, Side
Chair, Side

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

33 x 14 3/4 x 14 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.3189.3

Reparative Language in Collections Records

Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].