Side Chair

Even the simplest Baltimore furniture like this shield-back side chair sometimes carries design elements peculiar to Maryland. According to furniture historian Gregory Weidman, there is no exact English prototype for the splat configuration seen here--a grouping of three narrow ribs with out-curving sides, terminal leaf carvings, and teardrop-shaped piercings. No other American interpretations of the pattern are known.
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