Lot 102
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A BOW-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIR

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A BOW-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIR
GILBERT GAW, PHILADELPHIA, 1798-1824

The bowed back above nine bamboo-turned spindles and shaped seat, on bamboo turned legs joined by a bulbous bamboo-turned H-stretcher, stamped and labelled on the underside, appears to retain most of its original surface --37½in. high

Lot Essay

For another example of Gaw's label and stamp see Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America (Philadelphia, 1987), vol. II, p. 251. The label shown here was used while Gaw was working at 90 N. Front Street in Philadelphia.