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Lot Essay
With rounded stiles and its original maple slip-seat frame, this armchair is a rare survival of the form. Made in far fewer numbers than side chairs of similar design, such armchairs were made by a number of chairmakers working in mid-eighteenth century Boston. For a closely related example with squared stiles and variant stretchers, see Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston, 1965), pp. 175-176, cat. 138.