Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Gift of Mrs. Henry Vaughan, 44.519.5; photo by Erik Gould
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Child's high-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF3700 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 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) |
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Date17851800 |
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Current locationMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWhite pine (seat), ash, and maple |
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MarksUnkown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleWindsor |
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ProvenanceMrs. Henry Vaughn; bequeathed by her to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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Associated namesMrs. Henry Vaughn |
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BibliographyWendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 16501830, 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), 160161, fig. 203. Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997), 145, Pl. 1, fig. 2-1. |