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A PAIR OF FEDERAL FANCY-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
MID-ATLANTIC STATES, 1790-1810
Each black-painted and parcel-gilt with an octagonal plaque decorated in gilding with a fruiting grape vine between turned crestrails above three additional turned rails over scrolling arms and a balloon-shaped rush seat, on turned tapering splayed legs joined by stretchers (losses to paint)--33 1/4in. high (2)
MID-ATLANTIC STATES, 1790-1810
Each black-painted and parcel-gilt with an octagonal plaque decorated in gilding with a fruiting grape vine between turned crestrails above three additional turned rails over scrolling arms and a balloon-shaped rush seat, on turned tapering splayed legs joined by stretchers (losses to paint)--33 1/4in. high (2)