Leather chair 1723-45 American When the Boston upholsterer Thomas Fitch described chairs he was selling as crook’d back” in early 1723, he was probably referring to side chairs similar to the one displayed here, which is still upholstered in its original, locally tanned leather. Promoted as the newest fashiond,” the chair has a back panel with a shallow, serpentine curve that conformed to the sitter’s back and must have been a significant advance in seating comfort. Throughout the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the Boston chairmaking industry exported large numbers of these comfortable, practical chairs.. Leather chair 4769
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