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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1740-1765
Accession number: 2016.11.18
Maker: Unknown, American, 18th Century(Opens in new tab) (American, 1700–1799)
Dimensions: 40 × 22 × 20 in. (101.6 × 55.9 × 50.8 cm.)
Medium: walnut and silk
Description: Late Baroque style chair from Massachusetts with cabriole legs and pad feet
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gail-Oxford Collection

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Side chairs such as these with their gracefully curving cabriole legs and pad feet in the fashionable late Baroque style were produced in New England, particularly Boston, from approximately 1730 to 1760. Although this is not a matching pair, chairs such as these were often produced as a set. The chair with the bulbous medial stretcher and scalloped front seat rail has four notches carved inside the rail indicating that it was once part of a set.

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