Description:
Queen Anne easy chair or wing chair with a walnut frame, reupholstered with new orange material. These were often the most comfortable chairs in the house, often reserved for invalids, pregnant women, or the elderly. Since the wings captured heat from the fireplace, they were commonly used in bedrooms of the well-to-do. The first American easy chairs appeared during the William and Mary period (1690-1720); the Queen Anne style (1720-1755) was replaced by the Chippendale period (1755-1790), the heyday of American easy chairs. The chair has a curved crest rail, canted back flanked by shaped wings, outscrolling arms ending in vertical scrolled arm supports, trapezoidal seat, short front cabriole legs ending in rounded pad feet; turned medial and block-and-spindle compressed side stretchers and turned back stretcher and plain, slightly flared back legs.
Subjects:
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