拍品 1034
  • 1034

A VERY FINE AND RARE WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED AND CARVED BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE BANISTER-BACK SIDE CHAIR, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1725 |

估價
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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描述

  • Height 48 1/4 in.; 122.6 cm.
appears to retain its original black painted surface; together with a cushion and a bag embroidered AV.

來源

John S. Walton, Griswold, Connecticut, April 1982;
Vogel Collection no. 367.

Condition

Overall fine condition. Wear, rubbing to the painted surface and some losses to the edges commensurate with age and use. Few age cracks.
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拍品資料及來源

A nearly identical side chair that descended in the Fitzwilliam Walters family of Salem, Massachusetts is in the collection of Yale University Art Museum (acc. no. 1930.2523) (see Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture: Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan  and Other Collections at Yale University, (Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1976), p. 58-9, no. 36 and John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture, (New York: Knopf, 1970), p. 51, no. 34).