Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. seating furniture
10. single seating furniture
11. chairs (furniture forms)
12. [chairs by form]

Anotations

Scope note:

American adaptations of late Sheraton-Style, open-backed side chairs. These are usually painted black with stencilled decoration that emulated gilt and lacquered furniture imported from Europe, and were developed and sold by Lambert Hitchcock in Connecticut in the mid-nineteenth century.