Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Fine Black-Painted Scroll-Carved Fan-Back Windsor Side Chair, Joseph Henzey (1743-1796), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1800
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Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Fine Black-Painted Scroll-Carved Fan-Back Windsor Side Chair
Joseph Henzey (1743-1796)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1800
Retains a nineteenth century black paint over its apparent original green. The underside of seat branded I. HENZEY with a carved L below.
Height 38 in.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: Volume II, A Continuing Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1987), p. 71, no. 43.
"This is a very ambitious chair in the highest style. It has crisp turnings, beautiful scrolled ears, and a broad, well-saddled seat." - Charles Santore, 1981