Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1959.1667
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High-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF1240 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 42 7/8 in. (108.9 cm) Width, arms: 26 5/8 in. (67.63 cm) Width, crest: 22 1/4 in. (56.52 cm) Seat: 16 × 21 3/4 × 17 5/16 in. (40.64 × 55.25 × 43.97 cm) |
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Date176070 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (primary); hickory (spindles) (microanalysis) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceWinsor White (19011975), Plymouth, Massachusetts. Henry Francis du Pont (18801969), Whinerthur, Delaware; bequest to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1959 |
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Associated namesWinsor White |
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See also |
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BibliographyNancy Goyne Evans, "Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural Problems in Windsor Furniture," American Furniture (1994): 11, fig. 9.Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 238, fig. 6-1. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 116, 119, 38082, no. 83, fig. 1. |