The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
Very Fine and Rare Set of Five Federal Carved Mahogany Serpentine-Front Side Chairs, possibly Job Danforth (1745–1838), probably Providence, Rhode Island, Circa 1800
Auction Closed
January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Fine and Rare Set of Five Federal Carved Mahogany Serpentine-Front Side Chairs
possibly Job Danforth (1745–1838)
probably Providence, Rhode Island
Circa 1800
The set appears to retain its original surface.
Height 38 3/4 in.
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, American Furniture & Decorative Arts, February 22, 2004, sale 2230, lot 210.
David Hewett, "Currier and Ives Prints and Choice Folk Art Attract Bidders," Maine Antique Digest, May 2004, p. 20–C;
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive: RIF4934.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive: RIF4934.
These chairs relate directly to a set of three chairs that have a history of being made and owned by Job Danforth of Providence, Rhode Island. Danforth's surviving account book lists 119 various pieces of seating furniture including mahogany side chairs. The chairs are in the collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society and are illustrated in Patricia E. Kane, Art & Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture 1650-1830, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), pp. 85-5, fig. 19.