Extremely Rare Pair of Brace-Back Comb-Back Windsor Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1758-65
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Extremely Rare Pair of Brace-Back Comb-Back Windsor Side Chairs
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1758-65
First Chair: Height 37 ¼ in. by Width 17 ½ in. by Depth 19 ¾ in.; Seat Height 17 in.; Second Chair Height 37 ⅝ in. by Width 22 ¼ in. by Depth 21 in.
The Windsor Style, November 21-December 12, 1987, Hirschl & Adler Folk, New York.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: A Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 59, no. 23;
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style, (New York: Hirschl & Adler Folk, 1987);
Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996), p. 100, fig. 3-43.
