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Chair · New York
Side Chair
Maker unknown · New York · 1660–90
"Turkie work," serge, and leather chairs are recorded, often in sets of six, in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century estates of well-to-do New Englanders. "Turkie work" was a fabric woven in imitation of Turkish carpets. Serge was a durable wool furnishing fabric. Leather was widely used for chair seats and backs. Because of the additional costs for such upholstery, these chairs were the most expensive type of seventeenth-century seating furniture.
— Yale University Art Gallery, catalogue text
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