Sale 8563
London, South Kensington
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3 November 1999
Price realised
GBP 518
Estimate
A set of five brown painted and decorated Windsor chairs, American, probably Pennsylvania, mid 19th century each with arched top-rail and solid vase splat painted with fruit, on ring-turned legs joined by multiple stretchers See Illustration (5)
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Literature
See N. Goyne Evans American Windsor Chairs, p. 150, fig. 3.149. for a similar chair.
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