Windsor settee

Dateca. 1800

Artist/Maker John Letchworth

OriginAmerica, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

MediumTulip seat; maple legs and stretchers; hickory spindles, crest rails, arm posts and medial stretcher.

DimensionsOH: 30"; H. to seat: 17 1/4"; OW: 42"; OD:19"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1971-388

DescriptionWindsor settee with straight, narrow cresting rail across back, bends at right angles at either end and comes forward to top of armposts; back composed of 21 plain, tapering spindles between crest rail and doweled into seat; eight spindles on either side, behind, baluster-turned armpost at front; broad, plank seat worn at front; four, bamboo-turned legs, braced by blauster stretchers at either end, connected in center by plain, medial stretcher, probably a replacement.
Markings"LETCHWORTH" branded in block letters beneath seat.