A Set of Six Black-Paint Decorated Compass Seat Bow Back Windsor Side Chairs
A Set of Six Black-Paint Decorated Compass Seat Bow Back Windsor Side Chairs
19th Century
each appears to retain traces of a historic surface.
Height 38 inches.
Property from the Dean Lower Estate, Lanark, Illinois American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Height of seat 18 inches. Each in overall fair and stable condition. Retaining a fairly even painted surface, though it is likely a later 19th/early 20th Century paint application. The surface is crusty in areas, but smoothed in others, particularly the seat where there is most use. Old scuffs, marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Some undersides have been cleaned/stripped of paint or patina. Two chairs showing cracks at the top of the crest-rail where they meet one of the spindles.
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A Set of Six Black-Paint Decorated Compass Seat Bow Back Windsor Side Chairs
19th Century
each appears to retain traces of a historic surface.
Height 38 inches.
Property from the Dean Lower Estate, Lanark, Illinois American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Height of seat 18 inches. Each in overall fair and stable condition. Retaining a fairly even painted surface, though it is likely a later 19th/early 20th Century paint application. The surface is crusty in areas, but smoothed in others, particularly the seat where there is most use. Old scuffs, marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Some undersides have been cleaned/stripped of paint or patina. Two chairs showing cracks at the top of the crest-rail where they meet one of the spindles.
