Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Very Rare Black and Yellow Grain-Paint Decorated Scroll-Carved Comb-Back Windsor Armchair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1745-50
Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Rare Black and Yellow Grain-Paint Decorated Scroll-Carved Comb-Back Windsor Armchair
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1745-50
Retains a nineteenth century black paint with gilt over red over its apparent original green paint. Rear feet with loss.
Height 42¾ in. by Width 25 in. by Depth 18 in.; Seat Height 13½ in.
Please note the estimate has changed to match the print catalogue.
"Sassy Seating: Brewster to Stickley," The 1999 Philadelphia Antique Show brochure, p. 48-9, fig. 14.
This chair represents one of the earliest forms of Windsors made in Philadelphia. It is built to be very low to the ground with a broad splay to the legs which would increase stability and may have been used for nursing.