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Continuous-bow Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2165

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 37 3/4 in. (95.885 cm) seat: 17 1/8 × 17 5/8 × 17 3/4 in. (43.498 × 44.768 × 45.085 cm) Width, arms: 22 in. (55.88 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

White pine (seat), maple, ash, and hickory

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1977

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 280, fig. 6-83.