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High-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF2250

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 44 3/4 in. (113.665 cm) Seat height: 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm)

Date

1760–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple and hickory

Inscriptions

"Loaned to / G. B. Reynolds / by / O. M. Atkinson / May 18, 1880" in yellow paint on underside of seat

Style

Windsor, Windsor

Provenance

O. M. Atkinson in 1880. Skinner, Boston, November 4–5, 2006, lot 2337

Associated names

O. M. Atkinson
Skinner, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Mass., American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (November 5, 2006), lot 416, ill.