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This tall sack-back Windsor armchair represents a distinct Lancaster County type. Typical features include the high back with squarish comers, the nipped waist above the arms, and the combination of blunt arrow front legs and tapering rear legs. The scrolled arm terminals add a note of refinement.
Technical notes: Yellow-poplar (seat, external portion of right handhold), soft maple (legs, stretchers, arm supports), hickory (spindles, crest and arm rails).
Related examples: Evans 1996, p. 113, fig. 3–65; Santore 1981, p. 102, no. 105; Santore 1987, p. 99, no. 84.
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.
ProvenanceGalleries, Louis Guerineau Myers sale, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 473]; purchased by William C. Hogg (1875–1930), 1921; bequeathed to Miss Ima Hogg, 1930; given to MFAH, by 1969.
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