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Sack-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF1298

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 34 5/8 in. (87.948 cm) Height, seat: 15 11/16 in. (39.846 cm) Width, seat: 21 1/4 in. (53.975 cm) Width, arms: 23 9/16 in. (59.849 cm) Depth, seat: 16 13/16 in. (42.704 cm)

Date

1780–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Yellow poplar (seat); maple, hickory, and birch

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1959

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 264, fig. 6-47.