Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

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The Decatur Family Child's Red- and Yellow-Painted Sack-Back Windsor Armchair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1780

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January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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The Decatur Family Child's Red- and Yellow-Painted Sack-Back Windsor Armchair

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Circa 1780


Retains a late nineteenth or early twentieth century red paint over an apparent original black paint.

Height 20⅝ in. by Width 16 in. by Depth 8½ in.; Seat Height 9¼ in.

Stephen Decatur Sr. (1752-1808);

Captain John Pine Decatur (1786-1832);

Stephen Decatur (1814-1876);

Stephen "William Beverley" Decatur (1855-1934);

Stephen Decatur (1886-1964);

Ann Decatur Peirce (1920-1978);

Daphne Decatur Peirce (born c. 1957);

June Lambert Antiques, Alexandria, Virginia.

Stephen Decatur Sr. was a United States Naval Officer and father of the esteemed 1812 Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr. (1779-1820). This chair was likely use by Commodore Stephen Decatur and his brothers Captain John Pine Decatur and James Bruce Decatur (1782–1804). It subsequently descended through the Decatur family until purchased by Charles and Olenka Santore through June Lambert Antiques, Alexandria, Virginia.