Lot Essay
A similar chair from the Winterthur Museum is illustrated in Wendy Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 (New York, 1993), p. 115, fig, 77.
BOSTON, 1815-1825,
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A PAIR OF CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY SIDECHAIRS,
Boston, 1815-1825,
each with bowed tablet crestrail centering a veneered rectangular panel with rounded C-scrolled and bellflower carved corners above a reeded swag and anthemion-carved splat flanked by scrolled stiles over a trapezoidal slip seat, on sabre legs--32¾in. high
see illustration (2)
Boston, 1815-1825,
each with bowed tablet crestrail centering a veneered rectangular panel with rounded C-scrolled and bellflower carved corners above a reeded swag and anthemion-carved splat flanked by scrolled stiles over a trapezoidal slip seat, on sabre legs--32¾in. high
see illustration (2)