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Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.0002.001
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Bow-back Windsor highchair

Object number

RIF3979

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 34 in. (86.36 cm) Width, arms: 12 3/4 in. (32.39 cm) Seat: 20 3/4 × 11 7/8 × 11 in. (52.71 × 30.16 × 27.94 cm)

Date

1800–1805

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

White pine (seat), hickory, oak, and walnut (arms)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Windsor, turned legs, Windsor

Provenance

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1958

Bibliography

Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997), 157, fig. 2-30.
Tracey Rae Beck, "The Substance of Childhood," Antiques 157, no. 2 (February 2000): 327, fig. 1.