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Easy chair frame. Mahogany front legs and side and medial stretchers; hard maple rear legs and rear stretcher; ash arms; white pine cone-shaped arm supports; soft maple and other secondary wood. Straight crest. Stiles and rear legs of one piece. scrolled arms, block-and-vase-turned side stretchers. Swelled front and back stretchers. Front cabriole legs with shell and drop carved knees terminate in ball and claw feet.
easy chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
mahogany (wood)
ash (wood)
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
silver maple (wood)
Chippendale
maple (wood)
pine (wood)
Mahogany
Ash
Maple
Pine
Chippendale
CHAIR, EASY
Unknown
Boston, MA; Newport, RI
46 1/2 x 34 x 26 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Guido Perera
1976.129
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.
Massachusetts (United States)
Probably
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