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Low-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF1251

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 32 1/2 in. (82.55 cm) Height, seat: 18 5/8 in. (47.308 cm) Width, seat: 23 in. (58.42 cm) Width, arms: 26 in. (66.04 cm) Depth, seat: 15 1/16 in. (38.259 cm)

Date

1770–76

Current location

Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 242, fig. 6-8.
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), 116–117, fig. 3.