Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1952-257
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Bow-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF167 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensions38 1/8 × 17 1/8 × 19 3/4 in. (96.838 × 43.498 × 50.165 cm) |
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Date17901800 |
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Current locationThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia |
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GeographyProbably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (arms), hickory (bow and spindles); maple (arm supports, legs and stretchers); cedar or white pine (seat) |
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ProvenanceHenry A. Hoffman (born 1873), Barrington, Rhode Island and Litchfield, Connecticut; TheColonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1952 |
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Associated namesHenry A. Hoffman |
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BibliographyBarry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 174175, no. 150, ill.Nancy Goyne Evans, "Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island," American Furniture (1999): 72, fig. 23. Nancy Goyne Evans, "Design Sources for Windsor Furniture," Antiques 133, no. 1 (January 1988): 296, fig. 23. |