Chair

Object Name:

Chair

Object ID:

1986.047.01

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire

Date:

circa 1780

Description:

Side Chair. Country Chippendale style, maple wood. Bow-shaped crest rail, molded ears with central groove, rectangular stiles and pierced (5 piercings), vase-shaped, central splat housed in horizontal molded rail above trapezoidal rush seat. Front seat rail expands into exposed blocks at ends above legs (blocks show little wear, perhaps they have been replaced). Square front legs each with bead at outer corner and broad chamfer on inner corner. Square, outcurving rear legs chamfered on inner corners, with front surfaces cut back at angle below side stretchers. Four rectangular stretchers, top of all stretchers have a bead at outer edge. Front stretcher well worn. Pegged construction. Evidence of former red paint visible on seat rails.

Material:

Wood
Grass
Maple

Dimensions:

H-37.75 W-20.5 D-18.25 inches

Provenance:

Chair and five glass goblets, glass wine decanter, and liquor decanter, were acquired by donor's grandfather, David Batchelder (1808-1891), at an auction of the effects of the heirs of Gov. Meshech Weare (1713-1786) of Hampton Falls, NH. The chair descended in a branch of the Brown family to the donor's wife, Lucy Brown Seavey, a great grandniece of David Batchelder.

Credit Line:

Gift of G. Clifton Seavey, in memory of Lucy Brown Seavey

People:

Weare, Meshech (1713-1786), Weare, Mehitable (1719-1787), Batchelder, David (1808-1891), Seavey, Lucy B. (1911-1977), Seavey, G. Clifton (1911-1997)