Pair of Braced Fan-back Windsor Chairs

Pair of Braced Fan-back Windsor Chairs, Connecticut, late 18th century, with serpentine crests, vase and ring turnings, shaped saddle seats, and dramatically splayed legs, old green paint, ht. 36 3/4, seat ht. 16 1/4 in.

Provenance: Lee Hanes.

Literature: For a discussion of similar chairs made in northeastern coastal Connecticut and the Rhode Island/Connecticut border region, see Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, figs. 6-160 (with shaped cres trail terminals), 6-171, and Charles Santore The Windsor Style in America, p. 78, fig. 54.