Armchair

Production arm chair attributed to Sister Lillian Barlow, Second Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

1927-1940

Object ID:
1992.1.44
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Makers
Barlow, Lillian (1876-1942)
Description

Arm chair. Two back posts have chair tilters at bottom and turned finial at top. Between them are three steam-bent chair slats with a convex top and straight bottom and a single stretcher near bottom of posts. The other sets of posts have two stretchers between them. Front posts are turned and taper above seat and join with arms above seat. Arms are tenon jointed to back posts, grow in width, curve, and round off at end. At top of arms, above front posts, are mushroom-cap palm rests. Seat is rush, woven into four distinct triangular sections. Chair is washed orange.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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