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
Very Fine and Rare Chippendale Mahogany Lolling Chair, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Circa 1780
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Fine and Rare Chippendale Mahogany Lolling Chair
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Circa 1780
Retains a portion of its original linen and horsehair stuffing.
Height 42 3/4 in.
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Lolling Chair Not Idle At Nordblom’s," Antiques and the Arts Weekly, January 10, 1997, p. 98-9.
For a closely related 'French chair' see Brock Jobe, Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, (Boston, MA: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; Distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1993), pp. 335-7, no. 91, fig. 91A.