Very Fine and Rare Queen Anne Shell-Carved Compass Seat Rounded Stile Side Chair, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1745
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Fine and Rare Queen A🌠nne Shell-Carved Compass Seat Rounded Stile S🍸ide Chair
Boston, Massachusetts
Circa 1745
Chair seat frame and original slip seat frame respectively marked IIIIII. Slip seat frame with original under upholstery. Inscribed on proper right seat rail Julia A. Jenney / October 17, 1841. Accession number 66.107. Shoe is likely replaced.
Height 40 3/4 inches
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Collection, Dearborn, Michigan;
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 15, 1999, lot 653.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 15, 1999, lot 653.
Robert Bishop, The American Chair: Three Centuries of Styles, (New York: Bonanza Books, 1972), p. 82, figs. 82 and 82a;
Katherine Bryan Hagler, American Queen Anne Furniture, 1720-1755, (Dearborn, MI: The Edison Institute, 1976), pp. 22 and 25.
Katherine Bryan Hagler, American Queen Anne Furniture, 1720-1755, (Dearborn, MI: The Edison Institute, 1976), pp. 22 and 25.
Similar chairs are in the Historical Society of York County (Pa.) [may have been disbursed] and others in Greenlaw, New England Furniture, no. 51, Israel Sack Collection 3:745, Nutting furniture Treasury, vol. 2, no. 2130; American Queen Anne Furniture 25 [Dearborn 1976]” and those of Moses Brown, Carpenter, Arts and Crafts of Newport, 11. Girl Scout Loan Exhibition Catalogue, 1929, no. 569,
