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Designed in the Louis XVI style, the armchair illustrates the profound influence of French taste on American craftsmen in the late 18th century. The attribution of this chair to Hains is based on a nearly identical labeled example in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a set of eight armchairs and two settees, some bearing labels originally belonging to Theodore Lyman of 'The Vale' in Waltham, Massachusetts, and now in the collection of Historic New England

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