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Bow-back Windsor chair stool

Object number

RIF3670

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Length: 45 in. (114.3 cm)

Date

1800–1810

Current location

The Rhode Island Historical Society

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (arms)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, by 1997

Associated names

First Baptist Church of Providence

Construction

According to Nancy Goyne Evans, the lower front stretcher is reset and probably replaced; the upper front stretcher is an addition.

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997), 209, fig. 3-25.
Eleanore Bradford Monahon, "Catalog of The Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection," Rhode Island History 18, no. 4 (October 1959): 122–23, no. 57.