A PAINTED AND DECORATED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIR

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A PAINTED AND DECORATED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIR
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1765-1790

The serpentine crestrail with carved ears centering a stylized flower and foliate decoration above seven spindles flanked by baluster and compressed ball-turned stiles over an elaborately painted shaped seat, on baluster and ring-turned legs joined by a swelled H-stretcher, with blunt-arrow feet, the entire surface painted red with yellow embellishments--35 in. high

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A hand written paper label attached to the bottom of the seat reads: Jacob C. Miller's chair, about 60 years. Philip Hottenstein had it about 18 years. Sybrilla his wife willed it to Frances Sprechor 1936. It was bought from Grandpa Miller's uncle

A related chair, without painted decoration, is illustrated and discussed in Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America (Philadelphia, 1981), p.84, fig. 71