Description:
French-Canadian chair with a tall, raked back and heavily turned legs and stretchers. The stretchers are mortise and tenon joined with two pegs holding it at each joint, a characteristic of eighteenth-century French Canadian joined furniture. There are remains of the leather upholstery, brass-headed nails, backing material, and stuffing on the seat and back. The linen and leather are original; however the stuffing (seashore saltgrass, "Distichilis spicata (L.) Greene") is probably not original to the chair. The proper right seat rail is birch, the proper left leg is birch, and the peg on the proper right stretcher attaching it at center is also birch.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Brass; Leather; Linen

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