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Writing-arm Windsor chair

about 1810–1815
Object PlaceNew Hampshire
Medium/TechniquePainted woods
DimensionsOverall: 104.1 x 86.4 x 69.9 cm (41 x 34 x 27 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Robert C. and Mary Lou Sutter
Accession number2017.1342
On View
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ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
ProvenanceReportedly originally owned by Adam Gordon of Bedford, New Hamphire (b. 1795 - d. 1861) and taken to Dartmouth College, Class of 1817. Purchased by Bill Samaha and sold to a Pennsylvania collector; sold by the collector to Robert and Mary Lou Sutter, Hanson, Massachusetts; 2017, bequest of the Sutters to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)
about 1700
Desk and bookcase
mid 18th century
about 1840
about 1790-1800
Chest of drawers
about 1795–10
about 1870–80
about 1730–60
Sideboard
about 1800
Cabinet
Nelson Gustafson
about 1873–75
Face
Simon Willard
1795–1805
William Cummens
1800–10