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While similar in design to B.69.413, this large high-back Windsor features the slightly later short baluster and long, tapering leg turnings. The outboard back spindles flare as they rise to the crest.
Technical notes: Soft maple (legs, stretchers), white oak (crest and arm rails), hickory (spindles), yellow-poplar (seat). The spindles and the lower part of the legs, just below the urn turning, are restorations.
Related examples: Evans 1996, p. 91, fig. 3–24, which features the later scrolled-knuckle arm terminal.
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceLouis Guerineau Myers (1874–1932), New York; consigned to [American Art Association, Anderson Art Galleries, Louis Guerineau Myers sale, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 489]; purchased by William C. Hogg (1875–1930), 1921; bequeathed to Miss Ima Hogg, 1930; given to MFAH, 1969.
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