While the bow-back Windsor is a relatively common form, this example, with its yoke-shaped front stretcher, represents a design that seems to be peculiar to side chairs thought to have been produced by the Boston shop of Seaver and Frost. The undulating bamboo-turned spindles are also typical of the Boston area.

Technical notes: Eastern white pine (seat), birch (right rear leg), ash (crest rail, front curved stretcher, spindle third from left, wedges in legs), soft maple (left side stretcher, wedges in legs). Old but not original dark green paint. 

Related examples: Santore 1987, p. 137, no. 142; a related though not identical example, branded Seaver and Frost (letter from Nancy Goyne Evans, July 24, 1975, in object files); a third with partial brand at Chipstone (Rodriguez Roque 1984, no. 104); Evans 1996, p. 358, figs. 6–207, 6–208.

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.