Lot 228
  • 228

The Grant Family Rare Green-Painted Child's Comb-Back Windsor Armchair, Pennsylvania or New Jersey, Circa 1785

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • mixed woods
  • Height 25 5/8 in.

Provenance

Grant Family, Maplewood, New Jersey;
Sprain & Vanderbeck Antiques, Paterson, New Jersey.

Exhibited

Traveling Exhibition, The Pulse of the People: New Jersey 1763-1789, Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum; Newark, New Jersey, The New Jersey Historical Society, January 17, 1976 – June 16, 1976. 

Literature

Suzanne Corlette [et al], Pulse of the People: New Jersey 1763-1789, (Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey State Museum, 1976), p. 183, no. 303. 

Condition

Wear consistent with age and use.
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