Lowback Dining Chair
Unidentified Enfield Shaker maker (Enfield, New Hampshire), American, active 1793-1923
about 1850
Birch wood, pine (seat), with red stain
Overall: 25 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (64.8 × 44.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.22.16387
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Furniture: Seating
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Exhibition History
An Ever-Widening Circle of Friends, The Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire, May 30-October 31, 2006.
Shaker Joinery in New Hampshire, Spring Forum, Museum at Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire, April 12, 1997.
Webster Cottage, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 227, no. 199.
Provenance
From "Old Shaker Colony" Enfield Shakers, New Hampshire; collected by Frank C. (1850-1912) and Clara G. Churchill (1851-1945), Lebanon, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1946.
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