Maple and ash sack-back Windsor armchair with comb crest (aka "comb-back") with saddle seat and boldly turned and splayed legs; later coats removed to reveal original red paint/stain, with some traces of old black over-paint.
high-back Windsor chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
bentwood
maple (wood)
painting (coating)
turning (shaping process)
Chair
Chair, Windsor
Chair, Windsor
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
991.1331
Unknown
49 x 25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1331
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