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Armchair

Date1933

Maker Wallace Nutting

OriginAmerica, Massachusetts, Saugus

MediumMaple, Beech, cane

DimensionsOH: 57; OW: 25 1/2"; OD: 25"

Credit LineColonial Williamsburg Foundation

Object number1933-1,13 (R)

DescriptionArmchair, one of twenty-four. Turned and carved frame with cane seat and back. Sloping back with tall carved foliate cresting over a central cane panel with peaked top and bottom enclosed by fluted stiles and a molded, shaped stay rail, and flanked by stiles of turned columns with baluster shaped turnings at base. Trapezoidal caned seat with molded rails. Shaped arms termining in large scrolls over columnar shaped arm supports located directly above front legs. Front legs, columnar at top over scrolled knees and scrolled feet, all oriented at an angle; scrolled arched foliate front stretcher; turned side, medial, and rear stretchers. Rear legs extensions of turned stiles, raked towards rear, blocked at joints with stretchers, square rear foot. Reproduction of Wadsworth Atheneum armchair 1926.443.
Label TextIn 1933, the Williamsburg Restoration commissioned Wallace Nutting to produce a set of 24 caned armchairs for the reconstructed Williamsburg Capitol building. These reproduction chairs were meticulously reproduced by Nutting's shop based on an antique prototype in the Wadsworth Athenaeum collection.