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18th C. Painted Sackback
Windsor Chair
Fine eastern Connecticut sackback Windsor with unusually good proportions and turnings in crusty 19th C. black paint over the original green. The seven back spindles are spoke-shaved, fan almost perfectly to fill the bow and balance smoothly with the weight of the finely drawn turnings. All three stretchers terminate in arrow turnings. All roundwork penetrates the seat. 37½” tall with an 18” seat height. However, in addition to condition, form and surface, this Windsor has something no other published 18th C. sackback Windsor has: an incredibly rare, original two-board chestnut seat! I’ve never owned one. Never seen one. And of all the standard references only one even mentions the existence of two-board seats. This one is composed of two highly figured chestnut boards carefully chosen for their graining. Fanny wear has turned their grain pattern into something approaching art. A beautiful and extremely rare Windsor.
$3,800
