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Bow-back Windsor side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF177

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

38 1/4 × 17 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (97.155 × 45.085 × 47.625 cm)

Date

1785–1800

Current location

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple (legs and stretchers); white pine (seat); hickory (bow and spindles)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Walter M. Schwartz, Jr., Philadelphia. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1958

Associated names

Walter M. Schwartz, Jr.

Bibliography

Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 176–177, no. 152, ill.