Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.15
- Date:
- 1820-1840
- Description:
- Arm Chair. Curved, rectangular rail, clipped corners. Round, curved stiles, flattened above arms. Five turned spindles, shaped with oval turned top. Turned and tapered arm supports, and turned, tapered spindles between arm supports and stiles. Four turned legs, front stretcher turned with ball and incised rings. Side and back stretchers turned. Original finish removed (green, yellow, grey and white paint on bottom).
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-36.5 W-21.75 D-17.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro), between 1895 and 1913. The chair was said to have come from the Governor John Wentworth House.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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