Child's sack-back Windsor highchair, with straight arms and vase and ring-turned arm supports above heavy saddle seat; 4 splayed legs; the top half is vase and ring turned; the bottomhalf is tapered and connected by H-form turned stretchers; the front legs support a flat foot rest (lowered from its original position); hickory shows through under worn layers of old paint; below yellowish brown and later white paint are traces of the original green; mostly hickory, seat probably pine.
highchairs (children's chairs)
Windsor chairs
hickory (wood)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
turning (shaping process)
Chair
Chair, Child's
Highchair
Highchair
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
33 3/4 x 18 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1360
Probably Rhode Island (United States)
Probably
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