Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Edward C. Johnson III, Anonymous Gift, and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund, 1976, 1976.819
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Bow-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF2144 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions39 × 20 × 20 1/4 in. (99.06 × 50.8 × 51.435 cm) |
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Date17921800 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumPine (seat), maple, and other woods |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Corey, Scott, and Richmond families, East Providence, Rhode Island. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by 1981 |
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Associated namesCorey familyRichmond family Scott family |
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BibliographyNancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 275, fig. 6-72 (left).Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust, "A Decade of Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Antiques 120, no. 3 (September 1981): 597, fig. 9. |