Property from the Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III
VERY RARE WILLIAM AND MARY JOINED OAK WAINSCOT ARMCHAIR, PENNSYLVANIA, 1690-1705
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VERY RARE WILLIAM AND MARY JOINED OAK WAINSCOT ARMCHAIR, PENNSYLVANIA, 1690-1705
appears to retain its original red wash surface and original feet; seat replaced and portion of original retained.
Height 42 ¼ in.
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania;
Vogel Collection no. 560.
Historical Society of York County, York, Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Chair: 1685-1785, May-September 1978.
Joseph K. Kindig, III, The Philadelphia Chair: 1685-1785, (York, PA: The Historical Society of York County, 1978), no. 2;
Jack L. Lindsey, Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758, (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999), p. 112 and 170, fig. 178, no. 138.
As Jack Lindsey stated, some of the earliest surviving examples of Pennsylvania turned and joined furniture were constructed entirely of oak. This paneled oak armchair was probably made by one of the English, Welsh, or Irish joiners who immigrated to the Pennsylvania colony prior to 1715. Listed in the 'outward Roome' of Ralph Fishbourne's inventory taken in Chester County in 1708, “½ doz of oaken chairs.”