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Description:
One of a pair of Chippendale side chairs in mahogany, with a trapezoidal slip-seat frame covered with red material. The chair has a scrolled crest rail with scrolled ears over pierced splats; beading down the corners of the two front, square legs; plain rectangular, compressed stretchers; and chamfered rear legs. The square Chippendale leg, which gradually superseded the cabriole leg in New England, was in wide use from 1770 on; it was easier and cheaper to manufacture as were the rectangular stretchers, which were generally used with the square leg.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Mahogany

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