Lot Essay
A nearly identical chair is illustrated and discussed in Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America (Philadelphia, 1981), p. 84, fig. 71.
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A GREEN-PAINTED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIR
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1765-1790
The serpentine crestrail with carved ears above five spindles flanked by baluster and compressed ball-turned stiles over a shaped plank seat, on baluster and cylinder-turned legs joined by a swelled H-stretcher, with blunt-arrow feet, the entire surface painted green--37¾ in. high
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1765-1790
The serpentine crestrail with carved ears above five spindles flanked by baluster and compressed ball-turned stiles over a shaped plank seat, on baluster and cylinder-turned legs joined by a swelled H-stretcher, with blunt-arrow feet, the entire surface painted green--37¾ in. high