Spindle-back Armchair

Description:

Spindle-back Armchair, Boston type, 17th century style, with urn-and-flame finials, tiers of spindles, and plank seat.

Note: This chair is a faithful copy of a known 17th century chair in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum's chair is illustrated and discussed in American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles, pp 17-20.
Estimate $400-600


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