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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:American
Title:Side chair
Date Made:18th century
Type:Furniture
Materials:maple, hickory, and pine
Place Made:North America; United States; New England
Measurements:Height: back 39.5 in. seat 15.5 in. Diam. posts 1 5/8 in.
Accession Number:  MH SK B.10.A.5.16
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: An 18th century New England splat back side chair in the Dutch style. Maple posts and bottom rail, hickory stretchers, pine splat and top rail. Top rail cyma curved, bottom rail straight, inverted vase splat. Back posts, which extend above the top rail, are long vase turned between the rails, plain below, and have very simple spheroidal finials. Front posts ring turned between stretchers. Two front, two side, and single back stretchers plain. Twisted rush seat not original. Cat. 8/20/1936

Tags:
furniture; chairs

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