Set of Four Pine, Maple, and Hickory Painted Bow-back Windsor Side Chairs

Description:

Set of Four Pine, Maple, and Hickory Painted Bow-back Windsor Side Chairs, probably Philadelphia or Delaware, c. 1810, bamboo turned chairs with carved seats centering painted patera, old surface, ht. 37 3/4, seat ht. 18 1/2 in.

Provenance: Clark Garrett, Fairhaven, Ohio; Private New York Collector; Wayne Pratt, Woodbury, Connecticut.

Literature: For closely related examples see American Windsor Chairs by Nancy Goyne Evans, (New York, 1996),p. 104, no. 3-51, p. 106, no. 3-55 and p. 175, no. 4-28. Also see The Book of American Windsor Furniture by John Kassey, (University of Massachusetts, 1998),p. 66, no. 64 and p. 68, no. 66.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Keywords