Comb-back Windsor armchair. High back with a curved crest rail terminating in carved s-curls. There are two splats and five spindles. The lower splat curves and becomes the arms of the chair. The arm supports are turned. The seat is saddle shaped. Turned legs with h-shaped stretchers. Red fabric cushion.
Windsor chairs
wood (plant material)
cotton (textile)
Windsor chairs
Chair
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD361
Unknown
48 1/8 x 27 9/16 x 15 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2593
Probably Vermont (United States)
Probably Burlington (Chittenden county, Vermont)
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