Very Rare and Large Comb-Back Windsor Armchair, Manner of Thomas Gilpin (1700-1766) or Francis Trumble (1716-1798), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1750

This unique comb-back Windsor displays many of the earliest characteristic of Thomas Gilpin and Francis Trumble.  For Gilpin examples see Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: Volume II, A Continuing Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1987), p. 43, no. 1. For a closely related Trumble example at Winterthur Museum see Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996), p. 83, fig. 3-6.