PROBABLY BOSTON, 1750-1780
Details
A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT EASY CHAIR
Probably Boston, 1750-1780
The arched canted upholstered back flanked by shaped wings continuing to outward scrolled arm supports above a trapezoidal over-upholstered seat with rounded corners, on cabriole legs with pad feet joined by block and arrow turned H-stretchers, the proper right front leg and stretcher replaced
46.5/8in. high
Probably Boston, 1750-1780
The arched canted upholstered back flanked by shaped wings continuing to outward scrolled arm supports above a trapezoidal over-upholstered seat with rounded corners, on cabriole legs with pad feet joined by block and arrow turned H-stretchers, the proper right front leg and stretcher replaced
46.5/8in. high
Provenance
Descended in the Patterson-Long families of Boston
Israel Sack, Inc., New York City
The Bybee Collection, Houston
Israel Sack, Inc., New York City
The Bybee Collection, Houston
Literature
Jonathan L. Fairbanks, "American antiques in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bybee: Part I," Antiques (December 1967), p. 836.
Gerald W. R. Ward, ed., The Eye of the Beholder: Fakes, Replicas, and Alterations in American Art (New Haven, 1977).
Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack, vol. 1, p. 13.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 80, pp. 174-175.
Gerald W. R. Ward, ed., The Eye of the Beholder: Fakes, Replicas, and Alterations in American Art (New Haven, 1977).
Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack, vol. 1, p. 13.
Charles L. Venable, American Furniture in the Bybee Collection (Austin, Texas, 1989), cat. 80, pp. 174-175.