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A WILLIAM AND MARY BANISTER-BACK CROWN GREAT-CHAIR
POSSIBLY BY NATHANIEL STREET, NORWALK AREA, 1725-1745
With scrolled crown and quadruple heart-pierced crest above five molded vertical banisters flanked by trumpet and baluster-turned stiles and scroll-end arms over turned under-arm stretchers, above a rush seat, on cylindrical and ring-turned legs joined by double baluster and ring-turned stretchers (repairs to crestrail, pieced feet) --48 7/8in. high, 24 3/8in. wide
POSSIBLY BY NATHANIEL STREET, NORWALK AREA, 1725-1745
With scrolled crown and quadruple heart-pierced crest above five molded vertical banisters flanked by trumpet and baluster-turned stiles and scroll-end arms over turned under-arm stretchers, above a rush seat, on cylindrical and ring-turned legs joined by double baluster and ring-turned stretchers (repairs to crestrail, pieced feet) --48 7/8in. high, 24 3/8in. wide
Literature
Robert F. Trent, Hearts & Crowns (New Haven, 1977), pp.55-56, no. 26
Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, CT, 1967), p. 117
Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hartford, CT, 1967), p. 117