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Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey

An Exemplary Brown-Painted Scroll-Carved Comb-Back Knuckle Windsor Armchair, Eastern Connecticut or Rhode Island, Circa 1800

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

white pine, ash, and maple

height 45 in.; seat height 19 1⁄2 in.


with paint decoration on center crest rail and piping around spindles.


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John Kenneth Byard, Norwalk, Connecticut;

Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan;

Frank & Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art, Highland Park, Illinois in 1993.

John Kenneth Byard advertisement, Magazine Antiques , (April 1952), p. 291;

Jess Pavey advertisement, Magazine Antiques, (February 1958), p. 111;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 123, fig. 241.