A SET OF FOUR BOW BACK WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS

ONE SIGNED I SPROSON (JOHN SPROSON, W. PHILADELPHIA 1783-1786 AND NEW YORK CITY 1789-1798) PHILADELPHIA OR NEW YORK, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR BOW BACK WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS
One signed I Sproson (John Sproson, w. Philadelphia 1783-1786 and New York City 1789-1798) Philadelphia or New York, late 18th century
Each with a bowed crestrail continuing to shaped handholds above thirteen spindles over ring and baluster-turned supports above a shaped plank seat, on ring and baluster-turned legs with swelled and ring-turned H-stretchers
35¾in. high (4)

Provenance

Hugh Larew, Mocksville, North Carolina

Lot Essay

"Round back armchairs," known today as continuous-bow armchairs, were first introduced in the 1780's. John Sproson was one of perhaps a dozen known chairmakers producing these fashionable chairs in New York during the 1790's. Sproson moved to the city from Philadelphia in 1789, and could have fashioned these chairs in the years before this move. See Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York, 1996), pp. 199, 599.

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