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The use of turned wood to imitate bamboo came from England to Philadelphia in the 1780s and soon was incorporated into Windsor chair design. This sack-back armchair with its soft-contour bamboo turnings combines the new motif with the scrolled-knuckle arm terminals of earlier design. The flared front feet occur on Lancaster examples.
Technical notes: Soft maple (right arm support, medial stretcher, right rear leg), oak (wedges in tenons), hickory (crest rail, long back spindle, second from right), yellow-poplar (seat, external portion of right hand-hold).
Related examples: Santore 1987, p. 115; Evans 1996, p. 124, fig. 3–94, with similar flared feet.
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 G. Meyer Collection, New York, February 25, 1921, lot 481]; purchased by William C. Hogg (1875–1930), 1921; bequeathed to Miss Ima Hogg, 1930; Estate of Miss Ima Hogg, 1975; given to MFAH, 1979.
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