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Description:
Fan-back Windsor side chair supported on baluster turned legs with a medial brace below a yoke seat and a seven-spindle back with a shaped crest rail, all painted red with stenciled red-white-blue shields at the tops of the legs. The side chair is an excellent example of southern New England Windsor chairmaking at the end of the eighteenth century. The importance of the chair, however, rests in its Centennial-era painted decoration. It was acquired by Albert and Florence Stebbins Shaw of Webster, Massachusetts, about 1920.

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