Flemish style chairs

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Flemish style chairs
Reprinted from
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1928

Flemish chair: A late 17th century English high-backed chair, with or without arms. The splat was a panel of cane, upholstery, laths, or balusters surmounted with an elaborate carved cresting. The legs had straight backs with bold curves in front, and were supported by scroll feet. The stretcher consisted of two concave curves joined by a convex curve in the center. - Martin S. Pegler, The Dictionary of Interior Design. 1989.

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			Flemish scroll legs
Fully carved Flemish mode	Flemish chair. Elaborately carved stretcher and chest rail	English, Flemish type. Legs quartered outward. American Flemish often called Charles II.

American Flemish chair. Legs angle outward.	Detail: Flemish scroll legs and stretcher	##1981-82 A Flemish side chair and an armchair with Flemish back and carved arm.	A Flemish side chair and an armchair with Flemish back and carved arm.

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