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Armchair. Poplar posts; birch rockers; all other work ash. Ball-turned topmost back rail. Attenuated spindles at back and baluster-turned stiles. Tops of finials and ball-turned handholds above front posts missing. Two rows of stretchers at front and sides; one stretcher at back. Shaped planked arms. Rush seat and rockers not original.
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
birch (wood)
poplar (wood)
Chair
Chair
Loaned to Fitchburg Art Museum, Sept 2003- Feb 2004 for exhibition "Picturing Our Past: Frontier Challenges 1600-1720."
Weeks, Leonard
Weeks, Daniel
Unknown
Coastal MA or NH; MA; NH
38 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 14 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Nina Fletcher Little
1961.104
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