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Bow-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2144

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

39 × 20 × 20 1/4 in. (99.06 × 50.8 × 51.435 cm)

Date

1792–1800

Current location

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Geography

Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Pine (seat), maple, and other woods

Provenance

By descent in the Corey, Scott, and Richmond families, East Providence, Rhode Island. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by 1981

Associated names

Corey family
Richmond family
Scott family

Related objects

Bibliography

Nancy 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.