Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection
Very Rare Child's Black-Painted Sack-Back Windsor Armchair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1770
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Rare Child's Black-Painted Sack-Back Windsor Armchair
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1770
Retains a nineteenth century black paint over the original green paint. The underside of the chair inscribed in 1920 of P.B. Steadmans of California. Partial loss of handholds on each arm.
Height 27¾ in. by Width 16⅝ in. by Depth 12 in.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: A Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 163, no. 205.
"It has remarkably fine proportions. In addition, it is quite rare to find a Philadelphia sack-back of any size with the early cylindrical leg and ball foot. Notice the cylindrical turning of the arm supports just below the arm. Highchairs are sometimes found with this style of arm support: a hole is drilled through each cylinder, and, once the child is seated, a wooden rod would be inserted through the holes to prevent the child from falling (or climbing!) out of the chair. The arm supports of could easily have been used on a highchair, but as this is not a highchair, no holes have been drilled." - Charles Santore, 1981