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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 960468, member: 6444&quot;]I don&#039;t know where Brad&#039;s chair is from since he didn&#039;t post a link, but if it is really from the early 20th century, then it is based on the Morris Sussex chair, which was first made in 1864. I agree with Brad that both the Morris Sussex chair, and the one made in the Winterthur collection made ca 1800 could likely be based on a country chair from Sussex England. The V&amp;A museum has this to say about the Morris Sussex chair: &quot;This chair was named after a country chair found in Sussex, which inspired the design with the turned frame and rush seat. Similar types of chairs, with imitation bamboo frames and rush seats, were fashionable between 1790 and 1820&quot; <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7883/sussex-chair-armchair-webb-philip-speakman/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7883/sussex-chair-armchair-webb-philip-speakman/" rel="nofollow">https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7883/sussex-chair-armchair-webb-philip-speakman/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It makes sense that a chair made in New York in 1800 could have been loosely based on a chair made in England from the same time period. So unless Winterthur has their information wrong (which I doubt), I don&#039;t think there is much doubt that mine was made in New York ca 1800.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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