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Windsor Chair

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1810-1820

GUSN

GUSN-725

Description

Side chair, Windsor form. Painted hardwood. Step down crest; incised lines around seat; brown with floral decoration on crest and seat front. Slat back with pierced ends and tablet on top.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Windsor chairs
painting (coating)
Chair
Chair, Windsor
Chair, Windsor

Inscription

1) ""Susanna Jaquith Abbott/Bedford, Mass, 1820./1929-172"" 2) (label) ""Retouched Feb. 1935 by/Esther S. Fraser.""

Additional Identification Number

1929.173.1

Maker

Abbott, Susanna (Jaquith), 1797-1896 (Painter)
Fraser, Esther Stevens (Restorer)

Location of Origin

Bedford, MA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA

Dimensions

36 x 16 1/2 x 15 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar J. Rollins

Accession Number

1929.173

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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