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Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1964.1520
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High-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF1297

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 45 1/4 in. (114.935 cm) Height, seat: 17 1/2 in. (44.45 cm) Width, seat: 21 5/8 in. (54.928 cm) Depth, seat: 16 1/4 in. (41.275 cm) Width, arms: 21 7/8 in. (55.563 cm) Width, crest: 15 3/8 in. (39.053 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

White pine (seat), birch, ash,and oak

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1964

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 263, fig. 6-45.