Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 2011.025.02
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Side chair, one of three, originally owned by Benjamin and Abigail (Waldo) Wood of East Alstead, NH. Possibly made in Boston, MA, c. 1810. Sheraton fancy chair. Neoclassical-style bentwood side chair with rush seat. Turned maple and ash. Black painted body with gold stripe decoration. Curved back stiles with acorn finials on top. Turned tapered front legs. Four curved horizontal rods forming crest rail. Three curved horizontal rods on lower back and as front stretchers. Bowed rush seat.
- Material:
- Wood
Maple
Ash - Dimensions:
- H-35.5 W-18.5 D-19.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Benjamin Wood (1777-1841) moved with his family to East Alstead, NH, from Brookfield, MA, in the early 1780s. A farmer, Wood married Abigail Waldo in 1801 and lived in Orange, NH, until the mid 1810s when he returned to East Alstead for the remainder of his life. The chairs descended to Benjamin's son, Franklin Wood, and then to Franklin's son, Rev. Sumner Gilbert Wood. Rev. Wood left the chairs to his son, Horace Wood. The donor purchased them from the estate of Horace Wood's wife, Virginia.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of John C. Chadbourne in memory of Horace Winbourne Wood and Beatrice Virginia (Dorman) Wood
- People:
- Wood, Benjamin (1777-1841)
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