Lot 122
  • 122

A William and Mary Turned and Black-Painted Maple Slat-Back Armchair, Guilford or Wallingford, Connecticut, Circa 1750

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • maple
  • Height in. 48 1/2 in.
Please note, this lot will be offered without a reserve

Together with Two William and Mary Turned and Painted Maple Bannister-Back Armchairs, New England, circa 17303 pieces.

Provenance

George Samaha, Milan, Ohio

Condition

Two chairs lacking feet, Slat-back armchair with underarm turnings may have replaced arms; Please note mushroom pommels on banister back armchair are replaced
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Catalogue Note

A very closely related chair is illustrated and discussed in Robert F. Trent, Hearts & Crowns: Folk Chairs of the Connecticut Coast, 1720-1840, (New Haven, Connecticut: New Haven Historical Society, 1977), pp. 54-9, fig. 28.