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Child's high-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF3700

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 27 1/16 in. (68.739 cm) Height of seat: 8 5/8 in. (21.908 cm) Width of arms: 14 1/4 in. (36.195 cm) Depth of seat: 11 1/8 in. (28.258 cm) Width of crest: 14 1/8 in. (35.878 cm) Width of seat: 13 1/2 in. (34.29 cm)

Date

1785–1800

Current location

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

White pine (seat), ash, and maple

Marks

Unkown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Mrs. Henry Vaughn; bequeathed by her to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Associated names

Mrs. Henry Vaughn

Bibliography

Wendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650–1830, Fifty Years of Discovery since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 186, no. 201, ill.
Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 212, no. 155, ill.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America Volume II (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1987), 160–161, fig. 203.
Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997), 145, Pl. 1, fig. 2-1.