Name/Title
Kitchen chair with plank seat from the Meyers House basement, 1870Entry/Object ID
2014.2.1Description
Acc. No. 14.2.1
Subject Category: Household, furniture
Date or Period: 1870
Object: Chair, kitchen
Description: A kitchen chair with an ebonized finish. The back consists of a slightly bowed crest rail and slat attached to a lathe-turned support. It has a plank seat with a rolled front. The chair legs and rungs are secured with wire.
Size: H-32” x D-14 1/2”
History of Object: A crude utilitarian kitchen chair that appears to originally have had a varnished finish and which was later painted. It was found in the basement of Meyers House.
Acquired from: Meyers estate
Date: 01/02/2014
