Name/Title
ChairEntry/Object ID
1995.149Description
Colonial Revival side chair in Chippendale style. Black leather cover stapled to slip seat. Heavily carved shells on ears of crest rail, at center of crest rail and on front seat rail. Acanthus leaves carved on center splat and knees. Bell flower at bottom of splat. Front cabriole legs terminate in claw-and-ball feet. Rounded, canted back legs. Mortise-and-tenon construction.
Metal tag on inside seat rail reads: GSB 1642 Do Not Remove. Papertag on inside seat rail: A ZMade/Created
Place
* Untyped Place
Phila, PA. USADimensions
Height
41-1/4 inWidth
24 inDepth
20 inProvenance
Notes
Owner: Germantown Savings Bank
[donated by the] Germantown Savings Bank June 30, 1995
Gave to GHS its board room furniture from its headquarters in Bala. This furniture was in the GSB boardroom at Germantown Ave. and Schoolhouse Lane when GSB headquarters was there.
The tilt top table was made from a piece of the large table. The "signers" chair and other arm chairs and the table were made in 1925. There were more arm chairs made in 1940.
It is not known when the 5 side chairs were made. One of which we have accessioned. The two secretary desks served as bars in the boardroom.