Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop

Unidentified · 1900-1950

velvet and wood
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

High-backed wooden side chair with an upholstered seat and back. The chair has early Baroque ball turned front legs and straight back legs. There is a carved scallop with feathered edges at the center of the front stretcher, the side stretchers are straight and there is no rear stretcher. The crest of the seat back has a carved late Baroque style shell design at the center and two inward-facing ears on each side of the crest rail. The upholstery on the seat covers the front, side, and rear seat rails. The fabric is velvet with a striped design in red, yellow, orange, green, brown, beige, and black. The back upholstery is edged on the facing and reverse sides with blue passemenetrie with an undulating pattern.

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