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Highchair

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1830-1840

GUSN

GUSN-63192

Description

Flat crest with rounded cornrs; floral & vine motif; rosewood grain

Details

Descriptive Terms

highchairs (children's chairs)
birch (wood)
graining
stenciling
turning (shaping process)
Windsor chairs
Windsor
Birch
Turned
Grained
Stenciled
HIGHCHAIR

Associated Building

Used at Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),

Additional Identification Number

P916

Maker

Wilder, Josiah Prescott, 1801-1873 (Maker)

Location of Origin

New Ipswich, NH, USA

Dimensions

35 x 14 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Caroline Barr Wade

Accession Number

1987.727

Places

New Hampshire (United States)

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