Lot 162
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A PAIR OF BROWN-PAINTED BAMBOO-TURNED BOW-BACK WINDSOR SIDECHAIRS,

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A PAIR OF BROWN-PAINTED BAMBOO-TURNED BOW-BACK WINDSOR SIDECHAIRS,
Attributed to Thomas Cotton Hayward, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1770-1800, each with an incised bowed crestrail above eight bamboo-turned tapering spindles over a shaped plank seat, on bamboo-turned legs joined by a swelled H-stretcher, the entire surface painted brown, the underside of each seat stamped "T.C. HAYWARD"--37 3/4in. high (11)

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For further information, see Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, 1730-1830 (Philadelphia, 1981), p. 206; The Windsor Style in America, vol.II (Philadelphia, 1987), p. 253; and Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640-1970 (New York, 1972), p. 207.

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