Bow-back Windsor chair

Explanation and the Precedent - Our Windsor chairs
Generally the Dimensions are 19"x 20” x 38” tall.
Seat Dimensions: 16.25" wide x 18" deep
Standard Seat Height: 17.75"

Bow-Back can be made with bracing spindles.

Referring to history, pattern technology and design, the bow-back was originally made in England and then, in the 1780s, in Philadelphia during the federal period.

New York chair makers began making bow-backs in the mid-1780s. Bow-back arm-chairs from New York are particularly rare, suggestive of they may have been research that led to the continuous-arm.

The history says that the bow-back arm-chairs were also made in Southern New England.
(Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts).

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