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Colonial American Queen Anne furniture (Left to right) Maple and pine mirror, probably from Boston, 1720–45, above a tulip and maple tea table, Middle Colonies, 1730–40; japanned pine and maple high chest by John Pimm of Boston, 1740–50; and a walnut splat-back Queen Anne armchair; in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware.

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Queen Anne style of highboy, made in Boston, 1730–60.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909 (accession no. 10.125.62); www.metmuseum.org

Colonial American Queen Anne furniture (Left to right) Maple and pine mirror, probably from Boston, 1720–45, above a tulip and maple tea table, Middle Colonies, 1730–40; japanned pine and maple high chest by John Pimm of Boston, 1740–50; and a walnut splat-back Queen Anne armchair; in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware.

Colonial American Queen Anne furniture (Left to right) Maple and pine mirror,...

Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

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