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Very Fine and Rare Brown-Painted Low-Back Windsor Knuckle Armchair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1780

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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Very Fine and Rare Brown-Painted Low-Back Windsor Knuckle Armchair

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Circa 1780


Height 29 in.

Bernard and S. Dean Levy Inc., New York.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 80-1, no. 64.
A nearly identical chair is illustrated in William MacPherson Hornor, Jr., Blue Book: Philadelphia Furniture, (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers, 1935),  pl. 467.