Low side chair. Maple primary wood, pine secondary wood; horsehair upholstery; cotton batting; hemp, and chintz. Molded yoke-shaped crest with central carved shell. Pierced splat. Slip seat. Swelled ring-turned stretchers with block-turned supports. Rests on cabriole legs with cyma-curved knee brackets and ball and claw feet.
chairs (furniture forms)
carving (processes)
cotton (textile)
hemp (fiber)
horsehair
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Chippendale
Chair
Chair, Side
Chair, Side
Bradlee, Mary Perrin (May), 1815-1877
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
34 x 23 1/8 x 18 1/3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.616
Massachusetts (United States)
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