Object Number 1988.0002.001

Object Name

Chair (Windsor armchair)

Category

Furniture

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase

Creator (Role)

Unknown (Furniture maker)
This record is to be used when the maker of an object is unknown.

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1815-1820

Materials

Tulip poplar; Maple; Paint

Dimensions (inches)

34.318 (H) , 19.25 (W) , 18 (D)

Dimensions (centimeters)

87.31 (H) , 48.26 (W) , 51.12 (D)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Evans, Nancy Goyne. 1996 American Windsor Chairs.
• pl. 20, p. 29 (88.2.1 ill.) & 217
[Article] Evans, Nancy Goyne. 1998 "The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America". American Furniture. 1998: 99-163.
• in American Furniture (1998), fig. 87, pp.146-47 (88.2.1 ill.)
[Book] Priddy, Sumpter. 2004 American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840.
• fig. 232, pp. 135-36.
[Article] Evans, Nancy Goyne. 12//2005 Windsor-Chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer. The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc. 58 (4): 133-140.
• Published: p. 136, fig. 5