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Brace-back Windsor side chair (one of a set of eight)

(American, active about 1768 to after 1780)
about 1780–1810
Object Place for LabelProvidence, Rhode Island
Medium/TechniquePainted pine, maple, ash, with green over black paint
DimensionsOverall: 95.9 x 40.6 x 40.6cm (37 3/4 x 16 x 16in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated anonymously and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1976.776
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
InscriptionsIn chalk on underside of seat: "C. Corey."
ProvenanceScott, Corey, and Richmond families of East Providence, Rhode Island; October 6, 1976, Gustav J.S. White, Inc., Auction of Important Antiques, to John Walton, Connecticut; 1976, sold by Walton to the MFA. (Accession date December 8, 1976)