Side chair. Maple, ash, rush seat. Grain-painted to imitate walnut. Curved crest rails with peaked ears and scooped center over vase-shaped splat. Molded lower rail. Rush seat with exposed corner seat rail. Block-and-baluster turned front legs joined by baluster- and ring-turned front stretcher. Double side and single back stretchers also turned. Rests on Spanish feet.
side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
carving (processes)
graining
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
rush (material)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
Queen Anne
rush (material)
Maple
Ash
Rush
Carved
Turned
Painted
Queen Anne
Grained
CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Newbury, MA, Newbury, Mass. area
39 x 19 3/4 x 14 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.537.3
Massachusetts (United States)
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