Iconic Feeling Antique Ladder Back Doll Chair in Original Green Paint with Rush Seat Belgian playing cards I mended a few clean

I mended a few clean tears from the reverse with clear archival tape

on reverse: "Love is like the shadow seems /when the beam first lights the skies

There one small area of darkening on near the bottom of one side

so satisfying

but which turned out to closer to a barbell--well

Iconic Feeling Antique Ladder Back Doll Chair in Original Green Paint with Rush Seat Belgian playing cards I mended a few cleanYum. There are some pieces of tabletop furniture that want to be part of groupings and some that are stand alone objects, and this very iconic feeling ladder back chair I think is an example of the latter, the sort that would hold its own on a sparsely populated stretch of clean white shelf. Nice old green paint, original woven rush seat, a handsome thing. Second photo shows it next to a Schoenhut circus chair for scale. C. 1900 or so I would think.