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Description:
Side chair supported by four tapered legs and a medial stretcher base below a trapezoidal slip seat covered with leather, all below a back fitted with a yoke crest rail and a pierced splat with an urn surrounded by paired strapwork surmounted with two volutes. The chair descended in the Cowles family of Farmington, Conneticut, and bears construction features consistent with the documented work of Aaron Chapin (1753-1838), e.g. the Ellsworth family chairs. It is the type described as a chair "with urn'd banisters for loose [slip] seats" in the 1792 price list of Hartford cabinetmakers.

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