Description:
Federal side chair with five tassel-shaped slats filling the shield-shaped back. In October, 1922, Jennie Spaulding Tyler, the great-grandaughter of Mary and Ebenezer Mattoon (1755-1843) of Amherst, gave this chair to the Mary Mattoon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Amherst, Massachusetts. General Mattoon served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and held numerous military, county, state and federal governmental offices. The cherry side and rear rails are reinforced with quater-round pine glue blocks; the cherry diagonal braces are half-dovetailed into the front and side rails over slender rectangular pine glue blocks. Unlike similarly-styled chairs made in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Springfield area (see "Great River", p. 263, #151), this chair's side rails tenons are not motised through the rear rail.
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