Bow-back Windsor (sack-back). With seven spindles through arm rail doweled into bowed crest. Three half spindles support knuckled carved arms. Broad saddle seat. Legs turned with bulb, ring; long vase and spool terminating with long taper, "H" stretcher with long center swell. Painted black with deep red stain under coat on seat bottom.
bow-back Windsor chairs
chairs (furniture forms)
maple (wood)
cottonwood (wood)
Chair
Used At Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
Possibly Tracy, Ebenezer (Maker)
CT, Eastern; RI
36 1/2 x 24 5/16 x 15 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Guido R. Perara
1972.269
in association with the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum
Connecticut (United States)
Rhode Island (United States)
Possibly Connecticut (United States)
Possibly Rhode Island (United States)
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