Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1930-64
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Continuous-bow Windsor chair |
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Object numberRIF159 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions37 × 16 3/4 × 17 in. (93.98 × 42.545 × 43.18 cm) |
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Date17801800 |
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Current locationThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMaple (arm supports, legs, and stretchers), white pine (seat), and ash (spindles and bow) |
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StyleWindsor |
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ProvenanceLouis Guerineau Myers (18741932), East Orange, New Jersey; given to Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1930 |
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Associated namesLouis Guerineau Myers |
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BibliographyLoan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 526, ill.Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 174175, no. 148, ill. Wendy 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), 187, fig. 203. Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 279, fig. 6-79. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 393n1. |