Chair

Artist Joseph Hosmer 1735 - 1821

Date1770-1800

Terms

Side Chairs
Ash
Maple
Concord (Massachusetts)

Dimensions93.91 × 53.3 × 43.15 cm (37 × 21 × 17 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorcas Barrett Gerrish (ca. 1872) or Gift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)

Object numberF1114

DescriptionMaple, ash. Pair of country Chippendale side chairs with rush seats (F1114, F1115). Back posts angled above and below seats, chamfered at back abvoe seat, on inside below, flared out toward top. Serpentine crest rails, molded turned back ears. Pierced splats shaped with crest rails: bands at top that curve out and in, with scrolled ends, bottom pierced with two vertical slots and heart at center. Splats seated in lower back rail above seat. Front legs straight, squared, outer edges reeded, inside edges chamfered, fit into ends of front seat rails. One stretcher each on sides, back, and front (no median stretchers), all rectangular, tops slightly rounded, mortise and tenoned flush with legs.

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