My recent article on furniture in the Dietrich American Foundation is now available on line. It can be seen here. I want to make a correction to the previous post about the over-size high-back Windsor armchair in the Foundations collection. It has been on long-term loan to Stenton where I examined it several years ago. … Continue reading Windsors in the Dietrich American Foundation
Windsors
A Philadelphia High-Back Windsor Armchair
High-back Windsor armchair, Philadelphia, Penn., 1765-1775. Artist unknown. Yellow poplar seat and medial-section of arm, Maple legs and stretchers, Hickory crest rail, Mahogany arms, arm supports, and short spindles behind the arm supports. H. 43 3/4", W. 32 1/4", D. 26" Dietrich American Foundation. The armchair has been on loan to Stenton since 1971. The … Continue reading A Philadelphia High-Back Windsor Armchair
The First Philadelphia Windsor Highchairs
As noted in the last post, Windsor chairmakers in Philadelphia were making highchairs shortly after they began producing high-back Windsor armchairs in the mid-1740s. No highchairs modeled on the earliest Philadelphia high-back Windsors with plain crest rails and shaved arm supports are known to have survived, nor have any highchairs been discovered with Thomas Gilpin's … Continue reading The First Philadelphia Windsor Highchairs
A Philadelphia High-back Windsor Highchair
The next Windsor form in chronological order by date in the Dietrich American Foundation collection is also the last Windsor acquired by H. Richard Dietrich Jr (1938-2007). High-back Windsor high chair, Philadelphia, Penn., 1755-1765. Artist unknown. Yellow poplar seat, maple legs, stretchers, and arm supports, hickory spindles and arm rail, oak crest. H. 40, seat 21 3/4; W. … Continue reading A Philadelphia High-back Windsor Highchair
In Proportion to the Trouble 