A SET OF FOUR FANCY-PAINTED THUMB-BACK SIDE CHAIRS

NEW ENGLAND, DATED 1841

Details

A SET OF FOUR FANCY-PAINTED THUMB-BACK SIDE CHAIRS
New England, dated 1841
Each with tablet crest decorated with scrolling foliage centering a foliate wreath above two slats similarly decorated with gilt embellishments flanked by tapering stiles with gilt embellishments and ring-turnings over a trapezoidal seat, on ring and baluster-turned legs and front stretcher decorated with red paint and gilt embellishment, one chair with date inscribed on underside of seat
35½in. high (4)

Provenance

Homer Eaton Keyes
Alice Winchester, Newtown, Connecticut
Thence by descent in her family

Literature

Harriet Bryant advertisement, Antiques (June 1925), p. 297.
"A Corner of the Editor's Attic," Antiques (January 1931), p. 84, two of the four chairs offered in lots 351 and 352.

Lot Essay

These chairs and the pair offered in the following lot were owned by the founder and first editor of Antiques, Homer Eaton Keyes. His successor, Alice Winchester, continued to use the chairs in her office, and after her retirement in 1972 she brought them to her home in Newtown, Connecticut.

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