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There was a big farmhouse table and eight wheelback chairs, all made out of pine, all painted red, all worn back to shiny wood where human contact had been made.

Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001

She sits demurely in her miniature wheelback chair, her hands folded in her lap, her red shoes mousing out below the hem of her long muslin frock.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Longford led the way through gathering darkness to the abandoned car, and after a groping drive down the hill, drew up beside a tea-shop, which, with its wheelback chairs, chintzes, inglenooks, and warming-pans, was all that June desired in the way of quaint countrified luxury.

The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938

By contrast, the tables and wheelback chairs were in a sombre, dark wood, and the red carpet also had a slightly old-fashioned look to it.

Express & Star 2009

It had all the things that go to make the best farm-kitchens: such as red bricks and heavy smoke-blackened beams, and a deep hearth with a great fire on it and settles inside, from which one could look up at the chimney-shaft to the sky, and clay pipes and spills alongside, and a muller for wine or beer; and hams and sides of bacon and strings on onions and bunches of herbs; much pewter, and a copper warming-pan, and brass candlesticks, and a grandfather clock; a cherrywood dresser and wheelback chairs polished with age; and a great scrubbed oaken table to seat a harvest-supper, planed from a single mighty plank.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

It had all the things that go to make the best farm-kitchens: such as red bricks and heavy smoke-blackened beams, and a deep hearth with a great fire on it and settles inside, from which one could look up at the chimney-shaft to the sky, and clay pipes and spills alongside, and a muller for wine or beer; and hams and sides of bacon and strings on onions and bunches of herbs; much pewter, and a copper warming-pan, and brass candlesticks, and a grandfather clock; a cherrywood dresser and wheelback chairs polished with age; and a great scrubbed oaken table to seat a harvest-supper, planed from a single mighty plank.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

It had all the things that go to make the best farm-kitchens: such as red bricks and heavy smoke-blackened beams, and a deep hearth with a great fire on it and settles inside, from which one could look up at the chimney-shaft to the sky, and clay pipes and spills alongside, and a muller for wine or beer; and hams and sides of bacon and strings on onions and bunches of herbs; much pewter, and a copper warming-pan, and brass candlesticks, and a grandfather clock; a cherrywood dresser and wheelback chairs polished with age; and

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

The balding, bearded man looked up as if considering Burt’s presence, then he leaned back in the wheelback chair, fetching a silver pocket watch from his vest.

Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004