Description:
The round back posts of this rush-seat side chair are tenoned and pinned to the yoked crest rail. The vase-shaped splat is tenoned to the crest rail and lower back rail, which is tenoned to the back posts. The seat rails, four side stretchers, back stretcher and front stretcher are tenoned to the leg posts. The front stretcher is turned with adorsed vasiform elements separated by a spool. The tops of the legs are tenoned into the projecting corners of the front seat rail and are decorated with vase-shaped turnings. The feet are decorated with spool-turned ankles; the bottom inch of all four legs are ended out with replaced feet. The chair retains its original coat of red paint beneath the present layer of black paint. The chair was purchased from the estate of Mary Hawks, in the Wapping section of Deerfield and was probably owned by Quartus Hawks (1778-1842) and Sarah Allis Hawks (1787-1873), m. 1808. It then descended in the Hawks house to Horatio Hawks (1819-1865) and Mary Ann Allen Hawks (b. 1823), m. 1843; to Dwight Allis Hawks (1848-1928) and Ella J. Mansfield Hawks (born ca. 1851, Hawley, MA), m. 1879; to Paul Hawks (1891-1968) and Jessie Mildred Lowe Hawks, m. 1923; to Mary Hawks (d. 2011).
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