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Culture:American
Title:side chair
Date Made:1760-1780
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: maple; rush, black paint
Place Made:United States
Measurements:overall: 39 3/4 in x 20 3/4 in x 17 1/2 in; 100.965 cm x 52.705 cm x 44.45 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2009.36.3
Credit Line:Museum Purchase with funds donated by Philip & Betsy Zea in memory of Viola H. Wilby
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Black-painted side chair with a shaped crest rail, pierced splat, rush seat, and block and turned legs terminating with two Spanish feet in front and two plain feet on the rear. According to a handwirtten list of family objects in the file by Elizabeth Hawks Wells (1845-1938), the wife of George Merritt Wells (1839-1883) of Deerfield: "30. Black-painted chair from Aunt Kate Allen's house." "Aunt Kate" was Catherine Elizabeth Bardwell (1812-1889) who married Caleb Allen (1808-1862) in 1842 and lived in the Allen House on Main St., Deerfield. This chair came from the Viola Wilby estate.

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