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Culture:American
Title:side chair
Date Made:1795-1800
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: mahogany, ash, maple; textile
Place Made:United States; New York
Measurements:overall: 39 x 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.; 99.06 x 54.61 x 44.45 cm
Accession Number:  HD 63.277
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a pair of side chairs with shield backs decorated with carved plumes and drapery swags; seat upholstered over the rails; and two outflaring, tapered straight front legs and plain outflaring rear legs. Shield-back or vase-back (the period term) designs appeared both in Hepplewhite's "Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide" first published in 1788, and Sheraton's "The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book" published in four volumns (1791–1794); these designs were immediately picked up in America where they were made in most major cabinetmaking centers.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Mahogany

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