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Description:
Side chair in maple with a rush seat. The chair was purchased from Mary Crabtree of Greenfield, New Hampshire, in whose family it had descended from Major John Smith, Jr. (1751-1840) of Hadley, Massachusetts, who served as an enlisted man and officer in the American Revolutionary War. The chair is a significant example of the type of Queen Anne chair that remained popular in western Massachusetts until the 1780s. For a comparison, see the side chair, 88.097, made by Samuel Gaylord, Jr. for Charles Phelps of Hadley in 1775. The chair has a bulbous turned stretcher base; front legs terminating in Spanish feet; thin seat frame covered with rush; carved rear stiles and a yoked crest rail framing a solid baluster-shaped splat.

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