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Property from A Private Philadelphia Collection

A Very Fine Black-Painted Continuous Brace-Back Windsor Armchair, David Coutant (Coutong) (w. 1786-1795), New York, circa 1795

Lot Closed

January 25, 09:15 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

ashwood, maple, and white pine

height 38 ⅝ in.


the front of the chair seat stamped D. Coutong.


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Mildred Samaha, Milan, Ohio;

Robert Burkhart, Monterrey, Pennsylvania;

Charles Santore, Philadlephia, Pennsylvania;

James and Nancy Glazer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

For additional examples of Windsor chairs by David Coutant (Coutong), see Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), fig. 5-8, p. 198.