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. Rear seat rails are ash, stretcher under the seat is sweetgum and the corner blocks are white pine. 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; Brass; Mahogany Link to share this object record:
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