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Sack-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF4210

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

40 3/8 × 19 1/8 × 15 1/4 in. (102.553 × 48.578 × 38.735 cm)

Date

1780–90

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (arms, arm supports, legs and stretchers); yellow poplar (seat); probably ash (bow and spindles)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Windsor

Provenance

Louis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1930

Associated names

Louis Guerineau Myers

See also

Bibliography

Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 531, ill.
Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 178–179, no. 154, ill.