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- Great Chair, 1650-1675 - Furniture can signify a person's status within a household. This chair's large proportions and expensively turned arm posts and carved rails and seat back would have outshone others in the room. Only the head of the family and honored guests would have used this "great chair." Other family members would be resigned to simpler chairs, benches or stools.
- 1650-1675
- Collections - Artifact
Great Chair, 1650-1675
Furniture can signify a person's status within a household. This chair's large proportions and expensively turned arm posts and carved rails and seat back would have outshone others in the room. Only the head of the family and honored guests would have used this "great chair." Other family members would be resigned to simpler chairs, benches or stools.