A FEDERAL MAHOGANY SOFA FRAME

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A FEDERAL MAHOGANY SOFA FRAME
MASSACHUSETTS, 1790-1810

The arching crestrail continuing to curving arms over downswept molded arm supports above a bowed seatrail, on square tapering molded legs (minor loss to height of legs)--35 1/2in. high, 78in. wide, 25in. deep

Lot Essay

The manner in which the molding on this sofa's arm supports forms a lappet on the arms is reminiscent of molding on a chair labelled by Lemuel Churchill in the collection of the Winterthur Museum. See Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York, 1966), p. 163.