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Sack-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2106

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

42 1/2 × 20 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (107.95 × 52.07 × 38.735 cm)

Date

1785–95

Current location

Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Chestnut (seat); other woods

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Old Sturbridge Villiage, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, "Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island," American Furniture (1999): 69, fig. 21.