Lot 117
  • 117

VERY RARE QUEEN ANNE MINIATURE TURNED MAPLE 'FIDDLEBACK' ARMCHAIR, HUDSON RIVER VALLEY, NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY, CIRCA 1770

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • maple
  • Height 14 1/4 in.

Provenance

Fred J. Johnston, Kingston, New York;
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 18-20, 2001, lot 195;
Jonathan Trace, Cortlandt Manor, New York.

Exhibited

Albany, New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, Remembrance of Patria, May 9-October 12, 1986.

Literature

Roderic H. Blackburn and Ruth Piwonka, Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776, (New York: Produced by the Publishing Center for Cultural Resources for the Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988), p. 194-5, no. 230;
David Hewett, "Bidders Set the Prices at Unreserved Americana Auction," Maine Antique Digest, August 2001, p. 28-C.

Condition

top of splat with two chips at crest rail, seat appears to have original paint.
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