MASSACHUSETTS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

This chair exhibits characteristics frequently found in Massachusetts; these include finials with reel, ball-and-button turnings, post and bannister turnings based on a long column atop an urn, front posts with urn turnings, urn-and-ball feet with turned discs at the top, and a front stretcher with ball turnings separated by a disc.
A chair with a virtually identically carved Prince of Wales crest and similar feet is illustrated as a "Better" example in Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York, 1993), p. 23.