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Lolling chair
1795–1810
Object Place: Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, birch
Dimensions
Overall: 106.7 x 65.1 x 52.1 cm (42 x 25 5/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dudley Leavitt Pickman
Accession Number39.687
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Seating and beds
DescriptionA lolling chair with a canted back and serpentine crest rail. The seat is upholstered over the frame. There is a slight serpentine shaping to the arms in plan and the forward ends are molded; the moldings carry down into the long curved arm supports and then into the front legs. The legs are tapered and also molded in the outside. The square rear legs cant outward, and there is a rear stretcher and H-stretcher with rounded tops. The seat rails are birch.
ProvenanceLent by Dudley Leavitt Pickman, May 19, 1928; 1939, bequest of Dudley Leavitt Pickman (Accession Date