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From: Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 277, fig. 6-76
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Bow-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2149

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 39 1/2 in. (100.33 cm) Height, seat: 17 1/4 in. (43.815 cm) Width, seat: 16 7/8 in. (42.863 cm) Depth, seat [with extension]: 21 5/8 in. (54.928 cm)

Date

1800–1810

Current location

National Museum of American History

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Style

Windsor

Provenance

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 277, fig. 6-76.
Oscar P. Fitzgerald, American Furniture: 1650 to the Present (Lanham, Md.: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2018), 171–72, fig. 7.2.