Brace-back Windsor side chair (one of a set of eight)
Henry Bacon
(American, active about 1768 to after 1780)
about 1780–1810
Object Place for LabelProvidence, Rhode Island
Medium/TechniquePainted pine, maple, ash
DimensionsOverall: 95.9 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm (37 3/4 x 16 x 16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated anonymously and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1976.777
On View
Not on viewClassificationsFurniture
Collections
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)
about 1700–20