Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
A Very Fine and Rare Brown-Painted Knuckled Continuous-Arm Windsor Armchair, Eastern Connecticut, circa 1800
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:39 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
white pine, hickory, and maple
height 39 in.
the chair retains its original green paint under a 19th century coat of brown paint.
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Walters Benisek Art & Antiques, Northampton, Massachusetts at the New Hampshire Antiques Show, 1993.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 125, Fig. 244.
Directly related chairs are illustrated in Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1996), p. 281, fig. 6-88 and Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, no. 2645.
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