Bow-back Windsor Armchair
Ebenezer Tracy (American, 1744–1803)
- Maker
- Ebenezer Tracy (American, 1744–1803)
- Date
- 1785–95
- Medium
- White oak, chestnut, hard maple
- Dimensions
- 38.6 x 17.2 x 20 in. (98.1 x 43.8 x 50.8 cm)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Lisbon
- Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Accession
- 1930.2377
- Credit line
- Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
The daring construction of the continuous bow-back chair is a great achievement of the Windsor chairmaker's craft. On this example, the spindles have swelled turnings at the center, characteristic of Connecticut Windsor chairs.