A SHAKER MAPLE TILTING SIDECHAIR

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A SHAKER MAPLE TILTING SIDECHAIR
POSSIBLY ENFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, CIRCA 1850

THE ARCHED SLATS FLANKED BY ROUNDED CYLINDRICAL AND STEAM-BENT STILES WITH BULBOUS ACORN FINIALS, OVER A TRAPEZOIDAL CANED SEAT ON TAPERING CYLINDRICAL LEGS THE REAR FITTED WITH WOOD BALL-IN-SOCKET TILTERS,
JOINED BY SEVEN CYLINDRICAL BOX STRETCHERS (SEAT REPLACED)--42 1/4IN. HIGH, 18 3/4IN. WIDE, 15 1/2IN. DEEP

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SIMILAR EXAMPLES ARE ILLUSTRATED IN JOHN KASSAM, THE BOOK OF SHAKER FURNITURE, (AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, 1980), P. 81, FIG. 10;
MARY LYN RAY, THE GOSPEL SIMPLICITY: SHAKER FURNITURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, (CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 1974), FIG. 23.