A Very Fine and Rare Salmon-Painted Mahogany and Poplar Bow-Back Windsor Settee, possibly by Joseph Henzey or John B. Ackley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1800-1815

David Pottinger, Honeyville, Pennsylvania;

Marna Anderson, Kingston, New York;

Claude and Alvan Bisnoff , New York;

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, The Bisnoff Collection of American Folk Art, October 26-28, 2007, lot 677

Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, vol. 2, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1987), p. 198, nos. 213, 213A.

Philadelphia Windsor chairmakers Joseph Henzey or John B. Ackley are postulated as possible makers by Charles Santore. He ascertains that because of the similarity in their work it is probable that they worked together at one point. Henzey was known to have made two benches for Independence Hall in the late 1790's, which corresponds with the time this bench was made. A closely related example is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, American Furniture 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2020), p. 135, no. 107).