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Chair

1795-1800
Attributed to John Aitken (American (born Scotland), c. 1760/65–1839)
This chair was likely commissioned for the Philadelphia residence of George and Martha Washington and served as the prototype for a suite of similarly designed chairs commissioned for and still on view at their Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.

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