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High fan-back Windsor armchair
1760–90
Object Place: New England or Philadelphia
Medium/Technique
Maple, pine, ash or oak or hickory (by eye)
Dimensions
Overall: 107.3 x 47.3 x 53.3 cm (42 1/4 x 18 5/8 x 21 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number31.393
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Seating and beds
Catalogue Raisonné
Randall 196
DescriptionBraced, comb-back. Tall flaring back with four plain and three bulb-turned spindles of ash; yoke curved crest rail of maple; Out-curved arms with turned supports, ash; turned legs and stretchers of maple; pine seat; paint lost
ProvenanceHistory of ownership: early history unknown. 1930, sold at auction in New York City; 1931, anonymous gift to the Museum (Accession Date May 28, 1931)