Examples of turned 'great chairs' of this type with connections to various parts of New England survive in a number of public and private collections. Commonly made of ash or soft maple (or a combination of the two), they are an apparently later variant of the turned chair, in which the spindles of the chair back are replaced with thin, curved wooden 'slats'. This is also an example of a rush-seated chair, in contrast to the board-seated turned chairs also pictured in our pages. |
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