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Culture:American
Title:side chair
Date Made:1710-1800
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood, paint, splint
Place Made:United States; New England; Rhode Island (possibly)
Measurements:overall: 24 1/4 x 19 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.; 61.595 x 49.2125 x 36.5125 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1255
Credit Line:Gift of John B. Morris, Jr.
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Side chair with a banister back with old black paint. The chair has a double-arched crest rail, four turned banisters with the flat side faced forward, turned side posts with acorn finials, rush seat, two turned front legs, two turned front stretchers, and two plain side and one back stretchers.

Label Text:
Persis Hoyt Sheldon's (1747-1829) will, dated September 12, 1828, lists "six kitchen chairs" and the Memorial Hall Museum has similar banister-back chairs descended from the Hoyt family of Deerfield.

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