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On viewSide Chair
Date1735-1765
Terms
- Side Chairs
- Maple
- Sycamore
- United States
Dimensions101.52 × 53.3 × 35.53 cm (40 × 21 × 14 in.)
Credit LineSide Chair, America, 1735-1765. Concord Museu Collection, Gift of Cummings E. Davis; F601.
Object numberF601
DescriptionMaple, sycamore (?). Set of five matching Queen Anne side chairs with removable slip seats. Scooped crest rail, rounded shoulders. Solid baluster splat seated in shoe. Back posts and splat spooned. Back posts chamfered at back above seat, round between seat and stretchers. Back feet angled and chamfered. Squared seat. Cabriole front legs, slight corder at knees. One stretcher each on sides and back, with median stretcher, all turned. Corner blocks on some chairs.
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 12: "Five Chairs [Tolman Numbers 12-16, and F601-605, respectively], cabriole legs, Dutch feet, newly upholstered, belonged to Gen. Eleazer Brooks, of the army of the American Revolution. He was born in 1727, married 1763, died 1806."
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 12: "Five Chairs [Tolman Numbers 12-16, and F601-605, respectively], cabriole legs, Dutch feet, newly upholstered, belonged to Gen. Eleazer Brooks, of the army of the American Revolution. He was born in 1727, married 1763, died 1806."
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- Furniture
