A STAINED ELIOT TYPE CHAIR

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A STAINED ELIOT TYPE CHAIR
BY ALLAN BREED, YORK, MAINE, 1990

The horizontal double ring-and-baluster turned crest flanked by ring-and-baluster-turned finials above four ring-and-baluster turned stiles continuing to ring-and-baluster turned arms with compressed ball grip above ring-and-baluster turned supports over a trapezoidal seat on cylindrical legs with ring-and-baluster turned stretchers--40½in. high

Provenance

Allan Breed, York, Maine, June 15, 1990

Lot Essay

This chair is a single special commission copy of the Reverand John Eliot chair. Reverand John Eliot was a minister in Roxbury, Massachusetts who in 1663 published the first translation Bible in the native language of the Massachusetts Bay Indians in an effort to convert them to Christianity.