Windsor Maple and Hickory High-back Windsor Armchair

Description:

Windsor Maple and Hickory High-back Windsor Armchair, Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1760-70, the shaped concave crest on turned spindles and back continuing to scrolled arm terminals on fourteen vase and ring-turned spindles and arm supports, and D-shaped saddle seat on splayed turned legs joined by turned cross-stretchers, old refinish, (imperfections and restoration),ht. 44 3/4, seat ht. 15 1/2 in.

Note: Underside of seat lettered in yellow paint "Loaned to/ G.B. Reynolds/ by/ O.M. Atkinson/ May 18, 1880."

Literature: American Windsor Chairs, by Nancy Goyne Evans, pg. 238, fig. 6-1, shows an identical example from the collection at Winterthur.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

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