Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Property from a Westchester, New York Collection
Auction Closed
January 20, 04:11 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carved walnut
Height 39 in.
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York.
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Distinguished American and English Antiques, (New York, 1977), p. 53;
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Opulence and Splendor: The New York Chair, 1690-1830, (New York, 1984), p. 9.
Another chair, from the apparent same set, is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 1952.0239) (see Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in The Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum, (New York: Macmillan, 1952), no. 105).