Decorative arts
Comb-back Windsor Armchair with D Seat
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- Date
- ca. 1760
- Accession number
- 2016.25.74
- Maker
- Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
- Dimensions
- 46 × 27 3/4 × 23 in. (116.8 × 70.5 × 58.4 cm.)
- Medium
- wood with early red wash and later green paint
- Description
- A Windsor comb-back chair; the swells on the baluster turnings on the front arm supports and legs are full; the ring turnings are sharp and deep; with carved volutes, carved paddle arms, blunt arrow feet and a ball and ring Queen Anne stretcher; the D-seat is mortised through and double wedged and the seat height is 17-3/4 inches; Philadelphia.
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
