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Side chair with simple rounded crest rail surmounting a spindle back with four bulb and ring turned spindles enclosed by corresponding turned stiles. The round styles continue to round tapered legs, canted back. Front legs are turned and splayed. Ring and bulb turned frontal stretcher with two side and one rear dowel stretchers. Saddle-shaped cane seat. Painted bright red with gilt banding; repainted c. 1880s.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
caning
gilding
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Chair
Pine
Painted
Gilded
Turned
Caned
Chair
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
32 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 15 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.456
Title Chair Accession Number 1970.1060.1
Title Chair Accession Number 1970.1060.2
Title Doily Accession Number 1970.1061.1
Title Doily Accession Number 1970.1061.2
Title Side Chair Accession Number 1970.884
Title Side Chair Accession Number 1970.884
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