SideChair, Soft maple, yellow-poplar, hickory, birch, 39 15/16 × 15 1/16 × 14 5/8 in. (101.4 × 38.3 × 37.1 cm), With their spindle-turned legs and back posts and vase-shaped splats, chairs of this type were probably introduced at about the same time as the compass-seated walnut chairs of about 1730, but were a cheaper alternative. They were more economical to produce because they were turned on a lathe, made of maple, either stained or painted, and bottomed with rush. Shops in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island made chairs with the distinctive bat-shaped legs found on thisexample. , Made in Hudson Valley, Long Island Basin, New York, American, 18th-19thcentury, Furniture