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Continuous-bow Windsor chair

Object number

RIF3397

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 37 1/2 in. (95.25 cm) Seat height: 18 in. (45.72 cm)

Date

1790–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Hickory (bow and spindles), maple (arm supports, legs, and stretchers), pine (seat)

Inscriptions

"PH[?] / 2 [or 6]" in chalk on underside of seat

Provenance

Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, Massachusetts. Dinah and Stephen Lefkowitz (born 1937), New York, New York, and Old Lyme Connecticut; consigned to Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire (sale held Manchester, New Hampshire), August 4, 2007, lot 733

Associated names

Northeast Auctions
Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques
Stephen A. Lefkowitz

Bibliography

Northeast Auctions, Hampton and Portsmouth, N.H., Dinah and Stephen Lefkowitz Collection, sale cat. (August 4, 2007), 93, lot 733, ill.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America Volume II (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1987), 34, 153, pl. X, fig. 160.