Square-back Windsor armchair
about 1800–20
Object Place for LabelNew England, United States
Medium/TechniqueWood, painted
DimensionsOverall: 87 x 52.7 x 46.4 cm (34 1/4 x 20 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Walter Tebbetts
Accession number1973.497
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Not on viewClassificationsFurniture
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ProvenanceHistory of ownership: By family history and inscriptions, this was owned at an early date on Nantucket; tradition records that it was used in the home of John Wendell Barrett (born Boston 1794), 75 Main Street, Nantucket.here he was a ship owner and merchant; ; acquired in 1817 by a John Gardner; by descent in the family; 1973, gift of Mrs. Walter (Enid Hallett)Tebbetts, 137 Collins Road, Waban, Massachusetts (Accession Date September 12, 1973)
about 1750–1800
about 1830–35
1810–20
about 1815