Object Record
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Catalog Number |
0028 |
Object Name |
Chair, Side |
Date |
1765-1780 |
Description |
Windsor side chair with a concave comb back having nine spindles. The crestrail terminates in carved volutes. The spindles are plain with the exception of the outermost two, which are baluster-turned. Shaped seat on splayed baluster-turned legs reinforced with bulbous H-stretchers. Traces of original green paint. |
Year Range from |
1765 |
Year Range to |
1780 |
Made |
Philadelphia PA |
Material |
Poplar/Maple/Hickory/Oak |
Collection |
Stephen Girard Artifact Collection |
Height (in) |
37.000 |
Width (in) |
17.500 |
Depth (in) |
16.500 |
Related Publications |
Schwarz, The Stephen Girard Collection A Selective Catalog, # 38. Evans, Windsor Chairs. Bolger, Nancy. "200 Years of the Pennsylvania Chair" New York-Pennsylvania Collector. Dec. 1984 sec. 2 p 14-B Wick, Stephen Girard: A Patron of the Philadelphia Furniture trade, University of Delaware, 1977, p.81, 250 (illus.) |
Source |
Girard, Stephen |
Received as |
Bequest |
Other number |
GAF. 63 |
Used |
Stephen Girard's Water Street house |