Paint and ornament on Federal period vernacular chairs.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

During the Federal period painted or colored surfaces were critical to the appeal and salability of vernacular seating furniture, principally the windsor chair and the fancy chair. Emphasis on the eighteenth-century windsor chair centered on its sculptural qualities, whereas the frame of the nineteenth-century windsor and fancy chair emphasized flat surfaces to receive painted or stenciled ornament.

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With the introduction of the windsor chair in England in the early eighteenth ...

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