Turned back posts with ring- and ball-turned finials hold four arched slats. Flat arm rests and sausage-turned stretchers join turned front posts with ball hand holds to back. Rush seat. Double sausage-turned front stretchers. Double turned side stretchers; single back stretcher. Old red paint.
armchairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
rush (material)
turning (shaping process)
maple (wood)
rush (material)
Maple
Ash
Painted
Rush
Turned
CHAIR
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
New York, NY
46 x 24 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.553
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