A SUITE OF STENCILLED, GILT-DECORATED, AND GRAIN-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS

MID-ATLANTIC STATES, 1820-1840

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A SUITE OF STENCILLED, GILT-DECORATED, AND GRAIN-PAINTED KLISMOS CHAIRS
Mid-Atlantic States, 1820-1840
Comprising two arm and twelve side chairs: each with bowed tablet crest centered by a gilt medallion and acanthus decoration above a shaped splat with double-griffin decoration flanked by straight stiles, the armchairs with shaped arms continuing to underscrolled grips, all over a trapezoidal rush seat with a ring-turned front rail, on ring and column-turned tapering legs headed by gilt stencilled leaves joined by a flat front stretcher centering a gilt rosette, all on a black ground with gilt detailing
33in. high, 21in. wide (armchair), 17in. wide (side chair) (14)

Provenance

Sold in these Rooms, October 2, 1982, lot 273

Lot Essay

For similarly designed and decorated chairs in the collections of Winterthur Museum and Bayou Bend, see Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), no. 466, p. 456 and Warren, American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection, (Boston, 1975), no.178, p.95.

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