Chair

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Chair

Entry/Object ID

GHS 2428

Description

Windsor comb-back armchair

Made/Created

Date made

1750 - 1780

Place

* Untyped Place

Pennsylvania

Material

Mixed hardwoods; painted

Provenance

Notes

Owner: Dr. Thomas Livezy McLaughlin, Jr. GHS True Accession Book #2428: "American spindle back arm chair. Voluted (?) ear. Nine spindles. Plank seat, turned legs with stretcher. Chair is understood to have been given to the Livezy family. (Original Thomas Livesy) by Benjamin Franklin."