BRANDED BY JOSEPH HENZEY (1743-1796), PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GREEN-PAINTED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIRS
BRANDED BY JOSEPH HENZEY (1743-1796), PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
underside of both seats branded I:Henzey
37½ in. high (2)

Provenance

Possibly Judge William Sever (1729-1809), Kingston, Massachusetts
Purchased out of the Sever House in Kingston, Massachusetts
Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, Birmingham, Michigan
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, 20 January 1996, lot 147

Literature

Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts 1710-1850 (Hanover, New Hampshire, 2009), p. 90 (referenced).

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Lot Essay

A very similar chair bearing the same brand is illustrated in Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, vol. II (Philadelphia, 1987), p. 71, fig. 43. With their scrolled ears, crisp turnings and broad, well-defined saddle seats, these chairs are elegant Windsor forms.

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