The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 326
ed and had reached the Western Hemisphere. This tradition, the existence- of old Windsorchairs in England, the name, and, we may add, theprobabilities in the case, are the principal groundsfor the belief in their English origin. No mention of Windsor chairs was found in thecursory examination… … Fig. 74 A FIVE-BACKED CHAIR Beginning eighteenth century CHAIRS 183 In the New York Gazetteer, February 17, 1774,we find the following notice : — Thomas Ash, Windsor Chair Maker, at the Corner below St.Pauls Church, In the Broad-Way, Makes and sells all kinds ofWindsor chairs, high and low backs,…
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