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A SET OF FIVE BLACK-PAINTED BRACED BOW-BACK WINDSOR SIDECHAIRS
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with bowed crestrail above seven spindles and two brace back spindles over a shaped plank seat, on ring-and-baluster-turned legs joined by balbous-turned H-stretchers--38in. high
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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with bowed crestrail above seven spindles and two brace back spindles over a shaped plank seat, on ring-and-baluster-turned legs joined by balbous-turned H-stretchers--38in. high
(5)
Provenance
Decended in the Sheldon family, Carnston, RI
John S. Walton, Inc., Jewett City, Connecticut
Collection of Daphne Farago
Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 1991, lot 1304
John S. Walton, Inc., Jewett City, Connecticut
Collection of Daphne Farago
Sotheby's, New York, February 2, 1991, lot 1304
Literature
Carol C. Sanderson and Christopher C. Monkhouse, AMERICANA from the Daphne Farago Collection, (Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, 1985), p. 45.
David A. Schorsch, Excellence in American Design, (New York, 1991), p. 26.
David A. Schorsch, Excellence in American Design, (New York, 1991), p. 26.
Exhibited
Providence, Rhode Island, The Rhode Island School of Design, "Four Rhode Island Collectors in American Folk Art: Eliza Green Metcalfe Radeke, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Maxim Karolik, and Daphne Farago," September 27-November 17, 1985.