Description:
Queen Anne side chair in walnut with a maple, balloon slip seat covered with new mustard wool damask and braced with pine corner blocks. The arched crest rail has a center carved shell ending in volutes over undulating stiles and a vase-form splat with a short, straight neck; over a balloon slip-seat fitting into a conforming seat frame; over two front stocky, cabriole legs with shell carvings ending in volutes and drop pendant husks on the knees and ending in early ball and claw feet with wide webbings between the knuckles and chamfered rear legs, joined by block and swell-turned compressed stretchers. The back rail of the slip seat frame is marked "VIII" and "Wm. J. Currier" written in pencil; and the undercover is marked "Lord Brothers."
Subjects:
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