PROBABLY MASSACHUSETTS, 1720-1730

Similar in many ways to the preceeding lot, this example also demonstrates features characteristic of Masschusetts. A virtually identical chair, also attributed to Massachusetts, is illustrated in Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston, 1984), p. 347, fig. no. 93b. In addition to the elements noted above, related features include the carved decoration of the crest rail, the shaping of the bottom back rail, the caned seat and the profile of the turned stretchers. A second related example is in the collection of the Concord Museum and illustrated in David F. Wood ed., The Concord Museum, Decorative Arts from a New England Collection (Concord, MA, 1996), pp. 63-64, cat. no. 26.