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Carved back and arms, curule legs; turned stretchers. This chair is a type known as a "Glastonbury chair." Based on 16th century English chairs, these were widely reproduced in the late nineteenth century.
great chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
black walnut (wood)
carving (processes)
leather
foliation (pattern)
scrolling foliage
Jacobean
shields (motifs)
vines
Walnut
Leather
Carved
Shield
Vine
Foliage
Jacobean
CHAIR, GREAT
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
32.75 x 23.25 x 24 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.2228
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