A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS

BOSTON, 1735-1770

Details

A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
Boston, 1735-1770
Each with a yoked crest above a solid baluster splat flanked by conforming stiles over a trapezoidal slip-seat, on cabriole legs with padded disc feet joined by block and swell turned H-stretchers
40in. high (2)

Provenance

Enoch Remington I (1728-1811), Barrington, Rhode Island
Enoch Remington III (1792-1864), Barrington and Providence
Jeremiah Remington (b. 1827), Providence
Nellie Remington Filder (b. 1857), Providence
Marguerite Filder Howard (b. 1889), Providence
Israel Sack, Inc., New York City, 1967
The Bybee Collection, Houston

Literature

Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 15, pp. 36-37.

Exhibited

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "An American Sampler, 1700-1875: The Charles Lewis Bybee Memorial Collections," 23 October 1981-7 February 1982.

Lot Essay

According to family tradition, these chairs were first owned by Enoch Remington of Barrington, Rhode Island. His 1811 will includes "Eight old chairs, $2.50," which may be the set that included this pair (Venable, p. 37, fn. 3).