Armchair

circa 1747

Windsor Style chair with high back (consisting of six elongated spindles and a shaped crest rail), horseshoe-shaped arm rest and back, terminating in horizontal scrolls on either side, supported by fourteen thin turned spindles plus two heavy spindles under the arm ends, straight splayed baluster-turned legs braced by turned X-stretchers with block intersection, in old worn black paint.

American; Newport, Rhode Island

possibly all maple

Overall: 44 1/4 x 27 1/8 x 23 in. (112.4 x 68.9 x 58.4 cm)

Purchased in 2006 from Lee Hanes, Old Lyme, Connecticut; Hanes purchased from Sotheby's, New York, January 28, 30–31, 1994, lot 1329.

2006.1127