BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1815
Details
A PAIR OF FANCY-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
Baltimore, circa 1815
Each painted in yellow, sepia and black with rectangular tablet crest centering an oval landscape above ball-turned and swelling cylindrical stiles centering a crossed back over a shaped and caned trapezoidal seat above four cylindrical ball and ring-turned tapering legs joined by box stretchers, the front centering a canted paint-decorated oval reserve
33in. high (2)
Baltimore, circa 1815
Each painted in yellow, sepia and black with rectangular tablet crest centering an oval landscape above ball-turned and swelling cylindrical stiles centering a crossed back over a shaped and caned trapezoidal seat above four cylindrical ball and ring-turned tapering legs joined by box stretchers, the front centering a canted paint-decorated oval reserve
33in. high (2)
Provenance
Joe Kindig, York, Pennsylvania, 1966
The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
Sotheby's New York, October 26, 1991, lot 272
Leigh Keno, New York City
The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
Sotheby's New York, October 26, 1991, lot 272
Leigh Keno, New York City
Literature
Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640-1970 (New York, 1972), p.280, fig. 437 (a single sidechair)