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Side Chair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

ca. 1810

GUSN

GUSN-5159

Description

Four bamboo-turned raked legs and stretchers, saddle seat, bamboo-turned stiles connected by a tablet, five vertical bamboo-turned spindles, now painted dark brown.

Details

Descriptive Terms

side chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
pine (wood)
hardwood
pine (wood)
Windsor chairs
Unidentified Hardwood
Pine
Windsor
CHAIR

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

35 x 18 x 15.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.544A

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