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High-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF891

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 43 1/2 in. (110.49 cm)

Date

1760–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Unknown woods

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1965; sold to Henry Ford II (1917–1987), Dearborn, Michigan; consigned by his estate to Sotheby's, London (sale held Henley, Oxfordshire, England), December 5, 1988, lot 189. Ronald Pook Antiques, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 1989. David A. Schorsch, Inc., New York, 1989; sold to Joan Oestreich Kend, New York and Millbrook, New York; consigned by her estate to Sotheby's, New York, January 20–21, 2017, lot 4190

Associated names

Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Henry Ford II
Ronald Pook Antiques
Israel Sack, Inc.
Joan Oestreich Kend
Sotheby's

See also

Bibliography

"David A. Schorsch, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 139, no. 6 (June 1991): 1078, ill.
"Ronald Pook Antiques advertisement," Antiques 135, no. 4 (April 1989): 910, ill.
American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 2, p. 295, no. 719, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana Including Property from the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend, sale cat. (January 20–21, 2017), lot 4190, ill.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 382n2.