Lot Essay
For an example with similar turned legs see Richard H. Randall, Jr. American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, 1965), p. 102, fig. 70.
Details
A FEDERAL MAHOGANY SETTEE
NEW ENGLAND, 1805-1820
The arched upholstered back flanked by molded sloping arms above reeded and ring-turned baluster arm supports over a bowed seat front, on cylindrical tapering reeded and ring-turned legs
34½in. high, 64in. wide, 24½in. deep
NEW ENGLAND, 1805-1820
The arched upholstered back flanked by molded sloping arms above reeded and ring-turned baluster arm supports over a bowed seat front, on cylindrical tapering reeded and ring-turned legs
34½in. high, 64in. wide, 24½in. deep
Provenance
John Walton, New York, 1971
Literature
Barry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Virginia, 1974), p. 105, fig. 89.