Chair, Corner
- Object Name:
- Chair, Corner
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.03.02
- Date:
- 1710-1730
- Description:
- Corner chair. Round about chair. Maple or birch and ash or hickory. Painted black with yellow stripping, light brown underneath. Elaborately turned legs and arms, front leg terminates in a paintbrush foot. Flat, scrolled over-arm has molded, applied cresting. Turned front stretchers with ball and ring turnings; four round side stretchers. Woven rush seat.
- Material:
- Wood
Grass - Dimensions:
- H-31.1 W-18.5 D-23.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor found chair in NH. "From New Hampshire," according to early Prentis Room literature. Acquired prior to 1950, when it was pictured in "The Connecticut home of Mrs. Katherine Prentis Murphy" in Antiques (June 1950).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
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