A FEDERAL INLAID AND CARVED ARMCHAIR

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A FEDERAL INLAID AND CARVED ARMCHAIR
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1790-1810

The molded oval back containing three pierced banisters, the central banister with bellflower inlay flanked by a pair of banisters terminating in waterleaf-carved capitals, with molded arms all above an upholstered saddle seat, on square molded tapering legs joined by an H-stretcher--37in. high, 21 1/4in. wide, 16 3/4in. deep

Lot Essay

This chair-back design was popular in Federal Baltimore. For a related side-chair with saddle seat, see William Voss Elder III and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880 from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, (Baltimore, 1987), p. 36, fig. 21B.