Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1959.1667 Click the image to enlarge	High-back Windsor armchair
	Object number RIF1240
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 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)
	Date 1760–70
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (primary); hickory (spindles) (microanalysis)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Style Windsor
	Provenance Winsor White (1901–1975), Plymouth, Massachusetts. Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Whinerthur, Delaware; bequest to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1959
	Associated names Winsor White
	See also RIF891 RIF2250 RIF2455 RIF2907 RIF4429 RIF4812 RIF6377 RIF6484
	Bibliography Nancy 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 116, 119, 380–82, no. 83, fig. 1.

High-back Windsor armchair