A PAIR OF TURNED BROWN-PAINTED SLAT-BACK SIDECHAIRS

NEW ENGLAND, MID 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF TURNED BROWN-PAINTED SLAT-BACK SIDECHAIRS
new england, mid 18th century
The baluster-turned stiles surmounted by ball and ring-turned finials centering four graduated bowed arched slats above a trapezoidal rushed seat, on ring and baluster-turned legs with compressed ball feet joined by double baluster-turned box stretchers
43in. high (2)

Lot Essay

A chair with similar turnings is located at the Wadsworth Atheneum and illustrated in William Lynes, "Slat-Back Chairs of New England and the Middle-Atlantic States," Magazine Antiques, (December, 1933), p.209 fig 5.