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San Marino, CA 91108
Decorative arts
Carver Chair
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- Date
- ca. 1690
- Accession number
- L2015.41.98
- Maker
- Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
- Dimensions
- 45 x 26 1/2 x 20 in. (114.3 x 67.3 x 50.8 cm.)
- Medium
- maple, ash, and red stain
- Description
- A large turned or ‘Carver’ chair, in maple and ash with boldly turned finials, tow banks of turned spindles, ball-turnings on the back posts, and ‘mushroom’ handholds on front legs. A massive chair with 2-1/2 inch posts and 45-1/2 inches tall - in an old 19th century red stain with no repair or restoration. While it lacks the traditional turned elements of North Shore, Massachusetts chairs, and the double bank of spindles is associated more often with South Shore Massachusetts examples, this chair descended in a family from Lowell, Massachusetts until the late 1980s.
