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On Display: House - Portsmouth Room
Chair (Windsor armchair)
Unidentified
1815-1820
Category
Furniture
Creator/Artist/Maker
Unidentified (Furniture maker)
Place of Origin
New York; New York; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Tulip poplar
- Maple
- Paint
Museum Object Number
1988.0002.001
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1988.0002.001
Object Name
Chair (Windsor armchair)
Category
Furniture
Creator (Role)
Unidentified (Furniture maker)
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) x 19.25 (W) x 18 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
87.31 (H) x 48.26 (W) x 51.12 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Evans, Nancy Goyne. 1996 American Windsor Chairs.
• pl. 20, p. 29 (88.2.1 ill.) & 217Article: 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