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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: 41 3/4 x 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.; 106.045 x 48.895 x 37.465 cm
Accession Number:  HD 3069
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Side chair with a banister back, with traces of black paint. The chair has a double-arched crest rail; three turned banisters with the flat side faced forward; turned side posts with acorn finials; rush seat; two turned front legs and two ball-and-ring 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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