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Crook-Backed Chair
Catalog#: Winter/Spring 2002
Category: Furniture - American
SubType: Chair
Origin: America-USA
Era: 18th Century
Very fine with a particularly bold front stretcher and delicate Spanish feet. Maple, in old black paint, with no structural restoration; now upholstered in 18th century 'Russia' leather. Boston, circa 1725-1735

See Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture (1988), pp. 334-340, for similar examples and history.

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