Fan-back Windsor side chair

1795-1810

Measurements

35-3/4 in x 23-1/2 in x 19 in

Materials

White pine* (seat), red oak* (crest and spindles), maple* (legs and rear posts), black walnut* (stretchers)

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp

Accession Number

1959.3663

Provenance

Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp

Comments

This fan-back Windsor side chair, with seven narrow spindles, exhibits good turning, notably in the rear posts.  All of its features are crisply fabricated.  The crest rail has serpentine shaping along the top and bottom edges, giving it a "ribbonlike" quality that Windsor chair historian Nancy Evans associates with a group of Windsors she believes were made in New Hampshire.

Bibliography

Evans, American Windsor Chairs, 400-401, fig. 6-253.