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Side Chair

c. 1740
40 1/2 x 18 in.

Artist/Maker Unknown,

Object Type: Furniture
Medium and Support: maple
Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Tatum
Accession Number: 1976.6.3
A Queen Anne maple side chair with trapezoidal rush seat, yoke-shaped crests; vasiform solid back splat supported by horizontal rail; block and vasiform turned front legs terminating in carved brush feet; arched rear stiles terminating in chamfered, swept back feet, ring and ball turned front stretcher (possibly a later replacement); symmetrically turned side stretchers that expand from a narrow center and taper towards the end; a cylindrical rear stretcher. The chair retains traces of brown paint on the rear styles. Transitional chairs of chair type were made of maple throughout New England. The design retains features of the earlier Baroque William and Mary style in its block turning, brush foot, and stretcher turning, while also using late Baroque elements such as the vasiform back splat and arched rear stile. There is a related set with more extensive stretchers that retains a history of ownership in the Old Lyme parsonage, possibly made in Old Lyme, likely in New London County. For comparison, see New London County Furniture (Lyman Allyn Museum, 1974) cat. 14.

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Arm Chair

1976.6.1

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1976.6.4
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1976.6.5

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