Armchair, Windsor

Date1760-1780

MediumRed oak arm rail; tulip seat; Maple spindles, legs stretchers, and arm supports (red oak and tulip identified microscopically)

DimensionsOH 28 1/2" OW 27 1/8" OD 20 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1964-252

DescriptionWindsor Armchair with flat, curved, arm rail, scrolled outward at ends and incised with double line on top; built up, curved back rest attached to top of arm rail at rear; arm rail supported at front on each side by baluster and ring tunred support; 17 plain, cylindrical spindles doweled between seat and arm rail; shaped, saddle seat, dished out at center with molded rear edge and line molding in front of spindles; four splayed baluster turnip-shaped foot; turned side stretchers with central bulbous enlargement; baluster-turned medial stretcher with central ring turnings; chair painted green all over except underside of seat; green paint original.
MarkingsBranded "PVR" on underside of seat
ProvenanceProbably owned by Philip Van Rensselaer (1747-1798) whose brand it bears. Van Rensselaer married Maria Sanders in 1768, chair then probably descended to daughter Elizabeth who married Peter Edmund Elmendorf, to their daughter Maria who married Peter Sanders, then on to their son Cahrles P Sanders, to his on Charles P II, to his son,J. Glen, to his widow Pearl to CW. Origin: Philadelphia or New York City