image of object
Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1975.68
Click the image to enlarge

Fan-back Windsor side chair

Object number

RIF2215

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 35 1/2 in. (90.17 cm) seat: 17 3/16 × 15 3/4 × 15 5/8 in. (43.656 × 40.005 × 39.688 cm) Width, crest: 27 5/8 in. (70.168 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Connecticut-Rhode Island border region
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Yellow pine (seat);, ash, oak, and maple

Inscriptions

"S.O. Paine" spurious brand on underside of seat

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1975

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 317, fig. 6-148.