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Fan-back Windsor side chair

Object number

RIF4213

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

35 1/4 × 17 3/8 × 16 3/8 in. (89.535 × 44.133 × 41.593 cm)

Date

1785–1800

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Connecticut-Rhode Island border region
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Maple (legs, stretchers, and stiles), white oak (crest and spindle), yellow poplar (seat)

Inscriptions

"W......" [illegible] in white chalk on the underside of the seat

Style

Windsor, Windsor

Provenance

Herbert Schiffer Antiques, Exton, Pennsylvania, before 1966; sold to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1966

Associated names

Herbert F. Schiffer Antiques

Bibliography

Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 180–181, no. 157, ill.