Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 1970.047.03
- Place of Origin:
- New Hampshire
- Date:
- 1780-1800
- Description:
- Side Chair. Chippendale ladder-back type, with rectangular stiles having chamfered back corners, crest rail extending beyond stiles at sides and with scalloped upper outline and conforming, engrailed lower outline; three horizontal slats repeating shape of crest rail. Groove at outer edge of back stiles, in simulation of a bead, extending onto ends of crest rail. Splint seat of hickory. Square front legs, each with bead at outer corner and extending above height of seat rails with turned button on top of each, one differing slightly from the other. Square rear legs each chamfered on inner corners and cut sharply back at an angle on front surface about 2 inches below seat. Six plain rectangular stretchers--front, back and two on each side. Some stretchers probably maple; remainder of piece, birch, partly of "wavy" grain. High gloss varnish. Evidence of former red stain.
- Material:
- Wood
Maple
Birch - Dimensions:
- H-38.75 W-19 D-19.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Specific history of chair is unknown. Other pieces given by same donor, however, either descended to him from various NH ancestors or were acquired by his grandfather, Alexis Proctor, in the late-19th or early-20th centuries.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alexis Chapman Proctor
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