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Square backed Windsor armchair, canted backward with bamboo-turned stiles enclosing seven bamboo-turned spindles surmounted by bird-cage rectangular crest rail with slightly defined pointed ears. Bamboo-turned arms with conforming spindles and arm support. Saddle seat with enclosed line border band. Splayed bamboo-turned legs with block stretchers. Repainted leaf-green over black (may have been originally black).
armchairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
caning
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Windsor chairs
Chair
Chair, Windsor
Painted
Pine
Caned
Ash
Windsor
Turned
Chair, Windsor
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
33 8/9 x 20 1/2 x 15 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.450
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