Tables and Chairs

2	Side Chair		Chippendale side chair with shaped crest rail, pierced Gothic splat, slip seat, cabriole legs and carved claw and ball front feet. Has two pegs on rear legs where pierced by seat rails rather than through tenons. Inside of rear seat rail stamped "III". Seat upholstered in blue and white printed silk with earlier upholstery intact beneath. Numbered L.77.3 on rear seat rail.	circa 1780	Philadelphia, PA
4	Side Chair		Green fan-back windsor chair with carved ears, nine spindles flanked by side rails with vase and ring turnings, shaped seat pierced by four turned legs joined by turned h-stretcher. Paint is old but not original. Visible hand planing marks on underside of seat.	circa 1790	John Letchworth, Philadelphia, PA
5	Side Chair		Chippendale side chair with shaped crest rail, pierced Gothic splat, slip seat, cabriole front legs and trifid feet, marked "V" on inside of rear seat rail. Chair has through tenons made up of multiple pieces of wood. This could be an example of Germanic wedged tenons, but finish irregularities around the tenons suggest the multiple pieces of wood now making up the tenons are the result of later repairs. Seats upholstered around 1980 in blue and white printed silk with layers of older fabric intact beneath. Marked L.77.6 on rear seat rail.	circa 1775	Philadelphia
14	Tavern Table		Wide overhanging top of multiple boards rests on two bold molded supports which enclose the sides of the case below, two long pegs on each side to fasten the top into the case; case with one wide drawer on left and narrow drawer on right, the left drawer with two, the right drawer with one bail-handled brasses, the whole on turned legs with unusual pad feet on round pads.	1780 and later (?)	Delaware Valley
15	Arm Chair		Horizontal shaped crest rail with nicely carved spiral ears, above nine spindles, interrupted by a continuous arm with outward flaring terminals with beautifully turned supports, all spindles and the two supports piercing the D-shaped seat with incised line around curving or rear side, four canted and turned cylinder and ball-feet legs with ball and ring medial stretcher.	circa 1760	probably Philadelphia
23	Tavern Table		Overhanging top of three planks above straight sided skirt containing two drawers (wide drawer on left, narrow drawer on right), above turned legs with bun feet joined by a simple h-stretcher. Top has two bold moldings running from front to back on underside which affixed top to the frame with two turned handles on each side.	Circa 1760	probably Delaware Valley
24	Side Chair		Slat-back chair with turned stiles with teardrop finials and tapered legs enclosing four horizontal slats; the top slat with upper edge featuring raised center and flat bottom, the second slat perfectly straight, the third and fourth slats have upper edges with curved central motif and flat bottom. Old rush seat, turned front legs with bun feet, finely turned front stretcher with ball and ring detail, sides with plain double stretchers and back with plain single stretcher.	Circa 1760	Delaware Valley
25	Side Chair		Slat back side chair with turned stiles with turned finials and plain rear legs, enclosing four graduated slats, each with flat bottom and top edge with raised center section, the top slat widest and the bottom slat most narrow, rush seat, with plain turned front legs enclosing a nicely turned front stretcher, two plain stretchers on side and a single plain rear stretcher.	Circa 1760	Delaware Valley
38	Bench		Bench with plain top, apron with simple curved detail on ends, scalloped legs mortised through the top, two diagonal back braces,the whole with old grey-green paint.	Circa 1780	Delaware Valley
40	Commode Armchair Chair		Ladder back armchair with turned stiles, ball finials, five graduated slats and simply shaped rear legs. The removable rush seat enclosing a commode compartment, with deep commode skirt. Finely shaped arms with curving upper surface and undercut detail on lower surface (giving the impression of thickness at each end and extreme thin-ness at mid-arm), front legs with ball terminals and each side with two plain turned stretchers.	circa 1780	Delaware Valley
44	Settee		Windsor lowback settee with continuous upper seat rail, featuring incised line decoration on the outer ends and built up center section; twenty-one spindles, two turned arm supports and a double shaped seat.	circa 1900	America
45	Arm Chair		Windsor bow-back armchair with curving top rail, meeting continuous arm rail, enclosing seven spindles above and eleven spindles below, with two nicely turned arm supports, seat only slightly shaped, four turned legs with h-shaped turned stretchers.	Circa 1780	Delaware Valley
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