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Turned Armchair
1640–80
Northeast, Massachusetts, America
American
Ash
44 3/4 x 23 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (113.7 x 59.7 x 40 cm)
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951
51.12.2
The rarest and grandest of the early turned chairs are those with rows of spindles below the seat as well as above it. Although its boxlike form may look simple at first glance, this chair is a complex composition with subtle variations in the shaping of the rungs and in the spacing of its horizontal and vertical members.
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