Great chair. Poplar front legs, maple arms, crest, splat, stay rail, ash side stretchers and probably rear stretchers, replaced pine front seat rail, ash side and rear seat rails. Yoke crest; vasiform splat; curled hand-holds; block-turned legs; ball and reel stretchers.
great chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
rush (material)
tulipwood (Brazilian, wood)
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
rush (material)
Chair
Armchair
Chair, Great
Chair, Great
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
42 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 19 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.624
Massachusetts (United States)
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