Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 1975.025.01
- Creator:
- Wilder, Thomas (1791-1862)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- New Ipswich, NH/Walpole, NH
- Date:
- 1820-1840
- Description:
- Side Chair. "Yoke-back" Windsor type, with crest rail having straight lower edge, upper edge with broad arch at center, and U-shaped cut-outs at ends creating a pair of dowels at each end which are tenoned through stiles; turned cylindrical stiles with encircling groove 4" above seat and finials composed of flattened ball above ring turnings; four, vertical, turned and tapering spindles each with decorative groove corresponding with those on stiles. Hollowed, U-shaped white pine seat. Stiles and spindles tenoned into back of seat following its outline, stiles being tenoned through seat. Four bamboo-turned and splayed legs with tapering ends. Four bamboo-turned stretchers--front, back and sides. Branded mark on bottom of seat: "T WILDER / WARRANTED", upper case letters, latter part of each line almost illegible. No definite evidence of former paint on surface. May have been refinished however. Several checks in seat. Damage apparently caused by dog's teeth on stretchers, one spindle and right finial. Wooden pins reinforcing junctures of front stretcher with legs. Finish removed from patch at center of seat. Probably birch and white pine. One of a pair.
- Material:
- Wood
Pine - Dimensions:
- H-30.5 W-18 D-18.675 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a set of two purchased by donor from Paul Henderson of Nashua who had bought them at an auction of Byfield and Newbury, MA estates in March 1975.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles S. Parsons
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