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On viewSide Chairs
Date1735-1765
Terms
- Side Chairs
- Maple
- Boston
Dimensions98.99 × 53.3 × 40.61 cm (39 × 21 × 16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberF604
DescriptionSoft maple. 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 15: "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 15: "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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