The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 18. Very Rare Pair of William and Mary Black-Painted Banister-Back Ash Side Chairs, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Circa 1725.

Very Rare Pair of William and Mary Black-Painted Banister-Back Ash Side Chairs, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Circa 1725

Auction Closed

January 23, 10:36 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Very Rare Pair of William and Mary Black-Painted Banister-Back Ash Side Chairs

Southeastern Pennsylvania

Circa 1725


Height 45 1/2 in.

Herbert F. Schiffer Antiques, Exton, Pennsylvania;
Pook and Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Period Furniture, Fine Art, & Accessories, January 14, 2012, lot 40.
Margaret Schiffer, Arts and Crafts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, (Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1980), p. 83;
Alan Miller, “Flux in Design and Methods in Early Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Furniture,” American Furniture 2014, ed. Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 2014), fig. 7.