Description:
One of two Queen Anne side chairs (see 66.025), which represent some of the best seating furniture available in Boston during the 1730s and 1740s. Executed in the style associated with King George I, it illustrates specialized skills available both in the marketplace and at home. The craftsman John Welch (1711-1789) probably provided the "Carv'd Tops & Leggs" to an unidentified chairmaker, who assembled them in the modern curvilinear style for the wealthy Boston merchant John Fayerweather (1685-1760). His daughter, Margaret Feyerweather Bromfield (1732-1761), is believed to have embroidered the canvaswork seat cover. These two chairs are two of a set of at least six chairs: two are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, and two in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The curved crestrail has a finely carved, center shell and scrolling vines, veneered solid splat, compass seat, shell-carved knees, and cabriole legs ending in small ball and claw feet with pronounced webbing. The feet are similar to the feet on the turret-top table, 62.044, made in Boston about the same time. The back of the leg is an unidentified hard wood, the splat onto which the walnut is veneered on the front is another unidentified hard wood, the corner blocks are white pine, and the slip seat frame is red maple.
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