Green-painted Windsor Sack-back Chair

Description:

Green-painted Windsor Sack-back Chair, New York City, c. 1785-90, with bowed crest rail, shaped seat, and bulbous vase and ring turnings, old surface, ht. 36, seat ht. 17 in.

Literature: Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, Volume II, p. 101, pl. 87, shows a chair by the same New York City maker as the present lot, and may be its mate.
The Janie & Peter Gross Collection.
Estimate $800-1,200


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