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Blue-Painted Comb-Back Windsor Armchair, Connecticut, Circa 1790

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January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Blue-Painted Comb-Back Windsor Armchair

Connecticut

Circa 1790


Retains a late nineteenth or early twentieth century blue paint over white paint over its apparent original black paint. The Crest has the Odd Fellows interlocking rings symbol printed on the crest rail. 

Height 39½ in. by Width 21 in. by Depth 18½ in.; Seat Height: 18 in.

A nearly identical chair is illustrated in Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: A Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 72, no. 47.