AFA Summer 2021

Summer 92 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Fig. 3: Top: The most common design of pecten shells found on eighteenth-century Philadelphia furniture with five convex lobes and four concave lobes. Bottom: The design of the shells found on the Reifsnyder chairs with six convex and five concave lobes with a concave lobe at the center. Both chairs, the Dietrich American Foundation.