Rare Pilgrim Century Turned Maple and Ash Slat-Back Armchair, New York, Circa 1710

bottom four inches of feet replaced. Lacking loose wooden rings on underarms.

Timothy and Pamela Hill American Antiques, Birmingham, Michigan.

Wear commensurate with age and use. Rush seat replaced. The feet are ended our by 4".
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This chair is part of a small group of seventeenth and early eighteenth century chairs made in and around New York city. These chairs are noteworthy for the presence of intricately turned underarm turnings that originally would have had two loose rings of wood made from the original stock placed fore and aft in the thinner sections on the underarm.  Due to the fragility of these rings, of the approximately twenty five chairs that survive, only one at the Art Institute of Chicago has its original rings (see Judith A. Barte, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1998).