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Bow-back Windsor side chair

Object number

RIF3616

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

35 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 22 in. (90.17 × 41.91 × 55.88 cm) Height to seat: 16 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 15 1/4 in. (41.91 × 41.91 × 38.735 cm)

Date

1785–1800

Current location

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (spindles), birch (legs), oak or hickory (bow), white pine (seat)

Marks

None

Inscriptions

Old partial shipping label glued to underside of seat

Provenance

Titus Geesey (1893–1969), Wilmington, Delaware; given to Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1954

Associated names

Titus Geesey

Bibliography

Beatrice Bronson Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982), 39, no. 14.