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1775-1825
GUSN-8347
Child's rush-seated chair with ladder back. Its high back has two cross splats. Side uprights teminate in turned knobs. Four short legs with stretchers. Painted dark red with dark yellow painted rush seat.
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
rush (material)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
rush (material)
Children's furnishing
Maple
Turned
Painted
Rush
CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
22.5 x 13.25 (HxW), 10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.544
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