A Very Rare William and Mary Turned and Carved Maple Banister-Back Armchair, Salem, Massachusetts, Circa 1725

John Kenneth Byard, Norwalk , Connecticut ;

Mrs. Ima Hogg, Houston, Texas;

Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas;

Neal Auction Company, Fall Estates Auctions, September 12, 2009, lot 273.

John Kenneth Byard Antiques Advertisement, The Magazine Antiques, (July 1953), 7;

David Warren, American Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection, (Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston distributed by the New York Graphic Society, 1975), p. 10, fig. 13;

Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era, (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984), p. 327, fig. 85b;

David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman and Emily Ballew Neff, American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 8, no. F14;

Michael K. Brown, America's Treasures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years, (London: Scala Publishers in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007), p. 9 (with Ima Hogg sitting in the chair) and 35.

This exceptional banister-back armchair can be identified as being made in Salem, Massachusetts based upon the research of Robert Trent and Erik Gronning (see Robert F. Trent, Erik Gronning and Alan Andersen, "The Gaines Attributions and Baroque Seating in Northeastern New England," American Furniture, ed. Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chipstone Foundation, 2010), pp. 140-193).