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
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carved Mahogany
Height 38 ½ in.
Thomas Gibbons, Madison, New Jersey;
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York.
These chairs are part of a set possibly made for Thomas Gibbons (1757-1826) of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Four chairs from the set is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (acc. nos. 62.3.1, 62.3.2, 62.3.3, and 62.3.4) (see Donald C. Peirce, "New York Furniture at the Brooklyn Museum," Magazine Antiques, vol. 115, no. 5, May 1979, p. 997, pl. IV and Donald C. Peirce and Hope Alswang, American Interiors: New England & The South, (New Universe Books, 1983), p. 46). Two additional chairs from the set sold at Sotheby's, New York, Building America: The Wolf Family Collection, April 21, 2023, sale N11302, lot 885.