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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 1797030, member: 5066&quot;]The correct name for this type of chair is &quot;shaped-tablet-top Windsor side chair with splat&quot;, so says Nancy Evans and, I&#039;ll take her word for it! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>These chairs were very popular in America all during the 19th century and well into the 20th. They spanned both the hand made and machine made eras.</p><p>The popular name of &quot;fancy chair&quot;&nbsp; or &quot;painted fancy chair&quot; probably came from Baltimore, a center for some of the best early examples.</p><p>Nancy Evans, a furniture historian has a good article on their history with some great pics of this style of painted chairs at the Chipstone Foundation.</p><p><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/622/American-Furniture-2011/Documentary-Evidence-of-Painted-Seating-Furniture:-Late-Colonial-and-Federal-Periods" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/622/American-Furniture-2011/Documentary-Evidence-of-Painted-Seating-Furniture:-Late-Colonial-and-Federal-Periods" rel="nofollow">http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/622/American-Furniture-2011/Documentary-Evidence-of-Painted-Seating-Furniture:-Late-Colonial-and-Federal-Periods</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the &quot;fancy chairs&quot; in Evans article, mid 19th century, PA origin</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]240358[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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