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Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1959.1395, 6
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High-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2226

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 38 9/16 in. (97.949 cm) seat: 18 7/8 × 14 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (47.943 × 37.148 × 40.005 cm) Width, crest: 14 1/8 in. (35.878 cm) Width, arms: 19 5/8 in. (49.848 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Southwestern Rhode Island
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Medium

White pine (seat), birch, maple, beech, oak, chestnut, and hickory

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1959

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 318, fig. 6-150.