A GREEN PAINTED ROD BACK WINDSOR WRITING ARMCHAIR

This green painted Windsor writing armchair was likely made by Andrew and Robert McKim of Richmond, Virginia. This lot exhibits many similar features to a labeled McKim chair in the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (acc. no. 3182) including the rod back with straight crest, the seat shape including the tab-like projection supporting the writing arm and bamboo-form stretchers. Another example attributed to the McKim brothers can be found in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg (acc. no. 1994-50).