Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

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Fine Black Painted Low-Back Windsor Armchair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1780

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January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fine Black Painted Low-Back Windsor Armchair

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Circa 1780


Height 28¾ in. by Width 29 in. by Depth 16½ in.; Seat Height 16¾ in.

A closely related example with turned feet is in the collection of Independence National Historic Park (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. 62, no. 30).

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