PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
A William and Mary Black-and-Red Painted Banister-Back Armchair, Suffolk or Essex County, Massachusetts, circa 1715
Lot Closed
January 20, 07:07 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Maple
Height 47 in. by Width 24 in. by Depth 19½ in.; Seat Height 18 in.
Windsor style plank seat is an eighteenth or early nineteenth century replacement for a rush seat
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please make an appointment with the Americana department at 212-606-7130.
This chair is quite unusual for have conical arm supports. The vast majority of leather upholstered or banister back chairs have ball-and-baluster supports. A banister back chair with conical arm support is in the collection the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. no. 63.1046) (Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965), p. 161, no. 125). Another nearly identical chair is illustrated in Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, (New York: MacMillan Co., 1928), no. 1927. Other chairs with conical supports are illustrated in Erik K. Gronning, “Luxury of Choice: Boston’s Early Baroque Seating Furniture,” American Furniture 2018, ed. Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 2018), figs. 38, 99, 101, and 107.
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