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Chair · Portland
Side Chair
Walter Corey (American, active ca. 1836–75) · Portland · ca. 1850
The fashion for graining furniture to imitate rosewood arose in the 1820s. This chair, which was made in an era when the American furniture-making trades were radically changing, was the product of the prolific chair factory that Walter Corey established in Portland, Maine, in 1836. Corey eventually built his business into a large furniture factory, six stories high, with machinery run by a sixty-horse-power engine, and employed more than one hundred men.
— Yale University Art Gallery, catalogue text
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