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Fan-back Windsor side chairs, set of four

Object number

RIF2211

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 37 in. (93.98 cm) Width: 21 in. (53.34 cm)

Date

1795–1805

Current location

Yale University Art Gallery

Geography

Made in
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Soft maple (legs and stretchers), ash (crest rail, spindles and stiles); basswood (seat)

Provenance

Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, 1930

Associated names

Francis P. Garvan

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 315, fig. 6-144.
Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 202–203, no. 182.