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Colonial: William
and Mary country corner chair:
- Flat top rail
curving toward rounded handholds,
with molding
over center of rail serving as backrest
- Top rail supported by 3 baluster-turned
stiles
that continue below rectangular rush seat as block-and-vase-turned
legs
- Front leg terminating in scrolled
Spanish
foot, other 3 with plain bun
feet.
- Paired stretchers
on all sides; vase-and-ring-turned
on 2 front sides, plain in rear.
- Maple. Rush
seat.
- Possibly made in New York; also throughout New England, c. 1710-60
- Besides being used in corners, corner chairs were ideal desk chairs, and many
of the more elegant designs were made to hold chamber pots. The rush-seated country
version shown here, however, could not have held a pot since its seat cannot be lifted
- Turned legs are a
William and Mary trait that continued to be used in simple country chair designs
after the mid-18th century, long after the Queen
Anne style became fashionable.
Text source: Marvin D. Schwartz, American Furniture:
Tables, Chairs, Sofas and Beds. Pub. in 2000, #33
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