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Windsor Low-back Settee

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1760-1780
Mediumwood with black and green paint
Dimensions30 x 81 x 24 in. (76.2 x 205.7 x 61 cm.)
Description"A green painted Windsor low back settee, with distinctive steam-bent arm rail; knuckles made in three pieces, slightly bulbous spindles, blunt arrow feet on the front legs and tapered rear legs; with very old black paint over green, over black, over original green paint; there are score marks on the balusters of the arm support and legs and ring and arrow turnings on the medial stretchers; Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. "
Inscribedtwo penciled inscriptions written in the same hand on the underside of seat
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Status
Not on view
Object numberL2015.41.100
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