Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Very Rare Black-Painted Fan Back Windsor Nursing Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1780
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Rare Black-Painted Fan Back Windsor Nursing Chair
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1780
Height 27¾ in. by Width 17 in. by Depth 15½ in.; Seat Height 9¼ in.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: A Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 176, no. 233.
This chair, as described by Charles Santore as a "Dwarf-Chair", is probably a chair intended to be used next to a cradle or low bed so the sitter could be closer to the floor.