Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1930-64 Click the image to enlarge	Continuous-bow Windsor armchair
	Object number RIF159
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions 37 � 16 3/4 � 17 in. (93.98 � 42.545 � 43.18 cm)
	Date 1780–1800
	Current location The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia
	Geography Made in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Maple (arm supports, legs, and stretchers), white pine (seat), and ash (spindles and bow)
	Style Windsor
	Provenance Louis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), East Orange, New Jersey; given to Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1930
	Associated names Louis Guerineau Myers
	Bibliography Loan 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), 174–175, no. 148, ill. Wendy A. Cooper, In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650–1830, 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. 6-2. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 393n1.

Continuous-bow Windsor armchair