Side chair, splat back
Date1770-1800
MediumBlack walnut and yellow pine.
DimensionsOH: 36" OW: 19 3/4" OD: 17 1/2"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1994-157
DescriptionAPPEARANCE: Side chair with plain tapered splat serpentine crest rail with projecting rounded ears; marlborough legs with front and side stretchers. CONSTRUCTION: Crest rail mortise-and-tenon joined to stiles; splat tenoned into underside of crest rail and set into shoe, which in turn is nailed onto top of rear rail; seat rails pinned mortise-and- tenon joined to legs; stretchers similarly joined; mortise-and-tenon joined slip seat frame.
Markings"V" on slip seat and on rabbet in center of front seat rail.
ProvenanceCame out of a Charlottesville, Virginia collection. No earlier history recorded.
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