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Bowback Windsor Armchair

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1825

GUSN

GUSN-64797

Description

Bow-back enclosing seven spindles, with bowed medial arm rail extending into flattened arms with scrolled-out handholds. Ring and vase-turned arm supports. Saddle seat with dished center. Ring and vase turned played legs, peg tops extending through to top of seat. H-stretchers with swelled centers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

armchairs
chairs (furniture forms)
ash (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
pine (wood)
Windsor chairs
Chair
Painted
Pine
Ash
Windsor
Turned
Chair

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

36.875 x 23.875 x 16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.451

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