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Culture:American
Title:side chair
Date Made:ca. 1830
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood, paint, bronze powder
Place Made:United States; Connecticut (probably)
Measurements:overall: 32 1/2 x 18 x 17 in.; 82.55 x 45.72 x 43.18 cm
Accession Number:  HD 0480
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Hitchcock side chair in painted black. The chair, with its pillow top with ring turnings, wide slat back, spindles, plank seat, ring turned front stretcher and ring turnings on the two front legs ending in button feet, has a variety of bronze stenciled decoration. The introduction of stenciling, combined with the availabilty of less expensive methods of gilding such as bronze powder, dramatically changed furniture decoration after 1815. Lambert Hitchcock (1795-1852) of Hitchcocksville (now Riverton), Connecticut, developed a low-cost chair combining fancy chair components with stenciled decoration to create a new low-cost chair that could be shipped out in parts to be assembled on site. His work was quickly copied.

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