Triumphant Grace: Important Americana from the Collection of Barbara and Arun Singh

Triumphant Grace: Important Americana from the Collection of Barbara and Arun Singh

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1098. EXCEPTIONAL GREEN FAMILY GREEN-PAINTED COMB-BACK WINDSOR HIGH CHAIR, PROBABLY WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AREA, CIRCA 1800.

EXCEPTIONAL GREEN FAMILY GREEN-PAINTED COMB-BACK WINDSOR HIGH CHAIR, PROBABLY WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AREA, CIRCA 1800

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

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EXCEPTIONAL GREEN FAMILY GREEN-PAINTED COMB-BACK WINDSOR HIGH CHAIR, PROBABLY WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AREA, CIRCA 1800


appears to retain its original green paint.

Height 37 ½ in.

Descended in the Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts;

Elliott & Grace Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, Massachusetts.

R. Scudder Smith, "Snow and Colf for 57th Annual Show, But it Blows in with all its Class and Glory," Antiques and the Arts Weekly, January 28, 2011, p. 53.

The initial 180-acre Green family farmstead in Worcester, Massachusetts was bought by Thomas Green in 1754, with his son, Thomas Jr., building the first house on the property three years later. In the mid-nineteenth century, descendant Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) expanded the farm into a gentleman's estate, which he dubbed "Green Hill." Andrew was a prominent New York City official, preservationist, and leader of the Central Park Commission, and he largely credited with the creation of Central Park, the New York Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.