The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The DeBlois-Wesson Family Very Rare Queen Anne Shell-Carved Walnut Compass-Seat Easy Chair
Boston, Massachusetts
Circa 1755
This chair's legs retain an early historic surface and its original webbing and sack cloth on the back and the original sack cloth and horsehair and grass edge rolls on the arms. Fragments of the original show cover, a green worsted, probably harateen, are found under rose-head tacks along the front edge of the arms. Bottom of feet replaced.
Height 48 in.
From Gilbert Deblois and hence by descent as follows;
Louis Deblois;
to Leonard Wesson m. Sarah Carver Nye;
to James L. Wesson m. Caroline Stevens;
to Herbert W. Wesson m. Charlotte Deblois Atwood;
to Leonard Wesson m. Helen Louise Allen;
James A. Wesson;
Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Folk Paintings, October 25, 1992, sale 6350, lot 316.