PROBABLY FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT, 1775-1810
Details
A CHIPPENDALE BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE ARMCHAIR
Probably Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1775-1810
The shaped crest flanked by outscrolling ears above ring and baluster-turned stiles enclosing a pierced vasiform splat over flat outscrolling arms above baluster-turned arm supports above a trapezoidal rush seat with exposed corners, on baluster and column-turned legs with button feet joined by ring and baluster-turned box stretchers
41in. high
Probably Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1775-1810
The shaped crest flanked by outscrolling ears above ring and baluster-turned stiles enclosing a pierced vasiform splat over flat outscrolling arms above baluster-turned arm supports above a trapezoidal rush seat with exposed corners, on baluster and column-turned legs with button feet joined by ring and baluster-turned box stretchers
41in. high
Provenance
Found in Danbury, Connecticut
Robert F. Trent
The Bybee Collection, Houston
Robert F. Trent
The Bybee Collection, Houston
Literature
Robert F. Trent, Hearts and Crowns: Folk Chairs of the Connecticut Coast 1720-1840 (New Haven, 1977), no. 63, p. 79.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 34, p. 73.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 34, p. 73.