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A FEDERAL STYLE CARVED MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR, the rectangular crest with bow-tied drapery swags above reeded inwardly curving arms over reeded and leaf carved tapering supports above a trapezoidal seat with reeded bowed seatrail, on reeded tapering legs with casters--36in. high

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A FEDERAL STYLE CARVED MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR, the rectangular crest with bow-tied drapery swags above reeded inwardly curving arms over reeded and leaf carved tapering supports above a trapezoidal seat with reeded bowed seatrail, on reeded tapering legs with casters--36in. high

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This chair is a direct copy of an easy chair believed to be part of a set of thirty made for the Boston State House in December of 1797 by George Bright of Boston. One chair from the original set is now in the Wintertur Museum and is illustrated in Montgomery, American Furniture, (New York, 1978), p. 177, plate 135.