Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from an Important Private Collection
The Bliss Family Pair of Queen Anne Walnut Side Chairs, probably Springfield, Massachusetts, Circa 1760
Auction Closed
January 23, 04:26 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Bliss Family Pair of Queen Anne Walnut Side Chairs
probably Springfield, Massachusetts
Circa 1760
One chair is marked III, with slip seat I; the other chair marked V, with slip seat V.
Height 42in.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana including Property Approved for Deaccession by the Board of Trustees of Historic Deerfield, January 19-21, 2007, sale 8278, lot 403.
These chairs are remarkable for their undisturbed surface, delicate baluster and ring turned stretchers, and large shoe. These chairs according to family history belonged to Col. John Bliss (b. 1727) and were one of the original items in the Bliss-Morris homestead in Hampden, Massachusetts. See Springfield Republican, October 25, 1964, 6E.