Comb-back Windsor Armchair with D Seat
Maker
Unknown, American
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1760
Mediumwood with early red wash and later green paint
Dimensions46 × 27 3/4 × 23 in. (116.8 × 70.5 × 58.4 cm.)
DescriptionA 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 LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
Status
On viewObject number2016.25.74
Ebenezer Tracy, Sr.
late 18th century
Object number: L2015.41.112
