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Culture:American
Title:side chair
Date Made:1795-1805
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: mahogany; textile: silk
Place Made:United States; Connecticut (probably)
Measurements:overall: 37 x 20 x 17 in; 93.98 cm x 50.8 cm x 43.18 cm
Accession Number:  HD 0923
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of a set of four side chairs with shield backs, inlaid decoration, and upholstered seats. 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. The chair back has three splats, the center with a inlaid oval paterae flanked by two bowed splats with urn shapes, and a inlaid fan at the pointed end. The trapezoidal seat has a serpentine front and over-the rail upholstery. There are two plain, straight, tapered front legs, four plain stretchers, and two plain, flared back legs.

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