High Fan-Back Brace-Back Windsor Knuckle Armchair, attributed to Charles Chase, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Circa 1795
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
High Fan-Back Brace-Back Windsor Knuckle Armchair
attributed to Charles Chase
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Circa 1795
Labels on bottom of chair inscribed Repainted by ..., February 1897. and [M]ade by a man by ... in 1746 for ... Nantucket ... of the island ... afterward Edward Gessey .. who was captured by the British during the War of 1812. Afterward lodged Dartmoor Prison until the of War ... for a number of years. He sold ... square N ... and ... a fish. ... render by son ed. Stephan Hussey the wooden leg. Painted by Jas. N. Folger. Nantucket, Aug. 26, 1881. 1746
Height 43 1/2 in.
York Town Auction, Inc, York, Pennsylvania, Important Two-Day Antique Auction, February 16, 1992;
Philip Bradley, Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
Philip Bradley, Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
A nearly identical chair branded C. Chase is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg (acc. no. 1952-259). Another is in the collection of Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 59.1637) and is illustrated in Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1996)p. 381-2, fig. 6-234.
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