Windsor Low-back Settee
Maker
Unknown, American
Collections
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.
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Inscribedtwo penciled inscriptions written in the same hand on the underside of seat
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Status
Not on viewObject numberL2015.41.100
Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory
Tapestry woven covers ca. 1779; frames of nineteenth-century before 1892; modern
Object number: 9.30
Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory
Tapestry woven covers ca. 1779; frames of nineteenth-century before 1892; modern
Object number: 9.31