Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 1999.040.124
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Side chair, Victorian style, part of the 1930s bedroom furniture of Annalee Davis (Thorndike), Concord, NH. Spindle back chair (maple wood), with caned seat. Four decoratively-turned spindles, between bird's-eye-maple rails with lunate cut-outs between each spindle. Top rail carved, with 3.5" long cut-out. Legs have slight S-curve to them. Front stretcher (rectangular cross-section) bows inward. Side and rear stretchers are plain turnings. Heavily worn.
- Material:
- Wood
Maple - Dimensions:
- H-32.875 W-17.25 D-18.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the bedroom furniture used by Annalee Davis as a girl, when she lived with her grandparents on Centre St. in Concord, N.H., mid-1920s to 1930s; Annalee and her mother and sisters moved in with her mother's parents (Ladd), after the death of Annalee's father. Annalee reminisced that her doll-making business began in that Concord bedroom, as she invited friend over to help her make dolls.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Annalee Davis Thorndike
- People:
- Thorndike, Annalee (1915-2002)
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