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Side chair with walnut primary wood and maple secondary; yoke-shaped crest rail with central carved shell; cyma-curved stiles and vasiform splat; compass seat upholstered with twentieth-century red stamped worsted fabric; cabriole legs feature high-relief shell carvings terminating in carved bellflower drops; turned swelled stretchers with blocks and ring turnings, claw and ball feet. Part of a set purchased by Charles Barrett, Sr.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
walnut (wood)
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
Walnut
Maple
Queen Anne
Chair
Used at Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),
1948.152b
Unknown
Boston, MA
38 7/8 x 22 x 17 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Caroline Barr Wade
1955.430.2
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