Description:
One of a pair of mixed-style mahogany side chairs with slip seats. The scrolled crest rail has fluted ears, over a pierced, carved, and scrolled Chippendale splat with two volutes, and a trapezoidal slip seat covered with green silk damask. The Queen Anne front legs end in the later type of pad feet on high, platformed discs, and the rear legs are chamfered above and below the turned, compressed stretchers. The white pine triangular corner blocks are both glued and nailed to the seat rails, a technique characteristic of eastern Massachusetts chairs that is one of the easiest and least-expensive/lasting methods of chair frame construction.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Mahogany Link to share this object record:
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