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Large armchairs, or “great chairs,” as they were called in colonial America, survive more frequently from New England than from the Middle Atlantic or the South. The turned rear posts and miniature spindles on this example emanate from a seventeenth-century New York turning tradition. However, the turned pad feet and the split-banister back, or splat, suggest a mid-eighteenth-century date.
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Title: Armchair
Date: ca. 1740–60
Geography: Possibly made in New Jersey, United States; Possibly made in New York, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Cherry, ash, rush seat
Dimensions: 47 1/2 x 26 x 21 1/2 in. (120.7 x 66 x 54.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Wunsch Americana Foundation, 1999
Accession Number: 1999.219.1
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