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Low-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF1255

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 26 15/16 in. (68.399 cm) Height, seat: 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm) Width, seat: 22 in. (55.88 cm) Width, arms: 27 1/8 in. (68.898 cm) Depth, seat: 16 in. (40.64 cm)

Date

1760–70

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Provenance

Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1965

Bibliography

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, The Lansdell K. Christie Collection of Notable American Furniture, sale cat. (October 21, 1972), ill.
Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 239, fig. 6-2.
Oscar P. Fitzgerald, American Furniture: 1650 to the Present (Lanham, Md.: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018), 171–72, fig. 7.3.