Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Property from a Westchester, New York Collection
Lot Closed
January 20, 06:23 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mahogany
Height 32 in. by Width 24 in. by Depth 18 in.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please make an appointment with the Americana department at 212-606-7130.
The Wetherstine Family of New York;
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York;
Private Collection, New York;
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York.
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Catalogue V, (New York, 1986), p. 52.
Opulence and Splendor: The New York Chair 1690-1830, 1984, Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York.
A closely related chair is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 62.171.13) (see Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, II Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles, (Random House: New York, 1985), p. 67, no. 25)