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<p>[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 528465, member: 5170"]Where are you located? Do you know where the chair was made? I've seen some of these motifs, i.e. the "buttons" on the crest, this particular type of finial, on New Orleans furniture dating to the 1850s-70s, but everything else makes me think of a revival piece ca. 1900.</p><p><br /></p><p>So: Beautiful slipper chair, late 19th century, mahogany or walnut: it's hard to tell from the darkened finish. What is a slipper chair, you ask? It's characteristics are that it is armless, low to the ground, with a high back and (usually) an upholstered seat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 528465, member: 5170"]Where are you located? Do you know where the chair was made? I've seen some of these motifs, i.e. the "buttons" on the crest, this particular type of finial, on New Orleans furniture dating to the 1850s-70s, but everything else makes me think of a revival piece ca. 1900. So: Beautiful slipper chair, late 19th century, mahogany or walnut: it's hard to tell from the darkened finish. What is a slipper chair, you ask? It's characteristics are that it is armless, low to the ground, with a high back and (usually) an upholstered seat.[/QUOTE]
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