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1880-1900
GUSN-60755
Easy chair (A) with serpentine crest, shaped wings, straight arms with curved arm supports. Turned legs with box stretchers, spiral twist turning on front stretcher. Needlework and lindsey-woolsey upholstery cushion (B) added in 20th century to the 19th century frame.
chairs (furniture forms)
oak (wood)
turning (shaping process)
upholstering
Colonial Revival
Chair
Armchair
Chair, Easy
Chair, Easy
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
4 3/4 x 29 3/4 x 21 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1685AB
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