Set of 4 Chelsmford, Mass. Banister Back Chairs
C. 1740.
Descended in one family, and picked from the estate by the current owners. Arm chair 47.25" Tall with 16.25" seat; Side Chairs 46" tall with 17.5" seats. Still sturdy.
Price: On Request
ACD
A rare alarm patent time piece with gilt rope frames
One of a "handful" extant examples...
SIGNED-Aaron Willard Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts
Circa 1825
This attractive banjo clock features a rare alarm movement with outside bell mounted at the crest. The frames each contain magnificent original painted glass tablets in exceptional condition. The throat glass is exceptional with outstanding and important foliate and scroll motif with fanciful flourishes above a basket of fruit and the word "patent: within a scroll festooned with Rocco style decoration...the red, gold, blue and sepia decoration is all the more forceful against the mustard ground. The lower glass is decorated with the deity Aurora driving a team of winged horses, within a gilt border against the conforming mustard ground. Note the definition of Aurora's face and the incredible detail of the chariot as related to color and fancy ornamentation. The chariot is positioned before a powerful explosion of light rays and roiling clouds as it floats on ethereal clouds that ground the composition.
The movement is signed with a die stamp at the upper right on the front plate "A. Willard Jr / Boston". Very few movements are signed. The case retains a dry surface with fine old patina. Height Overall 32 1/8"
The original brass movement has been serviced and is in good running order. The alarm mechanism has been expertly restored. The alarm hand and weight are replaced with exact copies from original examples. The bell is period but not original to this clock. The original dial has restoration to the infield.
Price: $29,750
270-69
Blanket Chest with Two Drawers...original cut and chased brasses and escutcheons
Probably Guilford, Connecticut
Circa 1730
The surface possesses exceptional depth and character. Maple and tulip poplar. Measures 40-inches in height, 39.75-inches in width and 19.75-inches in depth.
Price: $11,750
621-25
Small Paint Decorated Blanket Box
Dimensions: 22.5-inches high, 39.75-inches wide, 16-inches deep.
To learn about the horse weathervane, please click here.
Price: $4,250
573-31
Oval Tavern Table
Possibly Rhode Island
Circa 1740
Maple, white pine and oak
The two-board maple top, joined with two "Dutchman butterflies", above frame with shaped profiles, including double-lobe shaped drops and double cyma curve side cut outs. The table is raised on turned, slightly splayed, oak legs. Nice old patina.
Dimensions: 26.5-inches high, 35.25 by 25.375-inch top.
Price: $5,950
497-27
Curved High-Back Winged-Settle
Exceptional color, surface and patina
18th Century
England - SOLD
A fireside settle made of oak with ship-lapped backboards, curved back and conforming plank seat; hand wrought nails and great color. (Height: 53 inches; seat height: 15.5 inches; width: 50 inches; depth: 15 inches.)
175-40 - SOLD
Dry Sink
Original green paint...
Pennsylvania
Circa 1850 - SOLD
The rectangular well with tall back and sloping sides above a conforming case having a pair of doors with recessed panels and a single cutlery drawer...raised on cutout feet. Constructed of poplar. (Width: 46.5-inches; depth: 18-inches; height: 37.5-inches.)
462-1 - SOLD
Windsor Bowback Side Chair
In Original Paint
Eastern Connecticut or Rhode Island
Circa 1800-1810
Original black paint with gold highlights and a gray under coat.
Dimensions: 37.5-inches high, 16.25-inch seat height, 14-inches wide, 14.75-inches deep.
Price: $1,625
573-2
Paneled Hanging Cupboard
Paint Decorated
Circa 1800-1830 - SOLD
A very nice hanging wall cupboard suspended from a raised and shaped tab. The overhanging molded top over the conforming case with applied side molding; odd but original is the thin veneer of maple pegged and nailed to the top. The door with four panels within molded recesses is of mortise and tenon construction and is hung from original butt hinges. The door panels are made of ash with all else being constructed of white pine. The door and sides decorated with trailing vine and floral motif; panels with stylized tulip. (Height: 25.75 inches; width: 19.25 inches; depth: 9.75 inches.)
469-3 - SOLD
Child's Pembroke Table
Early 19th Century
Mahogany
The rectangular top with shaped falling leaves above a plain apron fitted with a single drawer...raised on turned legs. The edges of top are with double bead; fine dovetail drawer construction...a neat table. Height: 23 inches; Top (open): 25.25 by 18 inches; Top (closed): 18 by 13.25 inches.)
Price: $1,445
605-40
Sugar Chest
Tennessee
Walnut and yellow pine
Circa 1820
The rectangular lid hung from original cast-iron butt hinges over the conforming dovetailed case fitted with single dividing board. The box rests within the waist molding on frame fitted with single drawer raised on sharply tapered legs. The drawer has a chamfered bottom and dovetailed sides. Brasses are replaced.
Height: 33 inches; width: 23.5 inches; depth: 13.5 inches.
Price: $12,000
505-9
Outstanding Architectural Cupboard Door
Eighteenth Century - SOLD
Tombstone panel; pegged construction, molded top and bottom rails and stiles...retains original hinges. Best dry painted surface as depicted.
Dimensions: 24 by 41-inches.
510-50 - SOLD
Elegant One-Drawer Table
South Shore, Massachusetts
Maple, pine...painted red
Circa 1800-1820
Within the drawers interior fancifully drawn in red...Henry Sturtevant, Halifax, Massachusetts, 1821 above a galloping horse as depicted...
The generously overhanging shaped top above a conforming apron with single drawer having scratch-molded detail and retaining brass pull. This lovely country form raised on tall delicate double-tapered legs. About full coverage red resin stain; top is pinned as are legs...nice patina and surface quality. Height: 27.5 inches; Top: 19 by 15.25 inches.
Price: $3,100
505-19
Potty Chair
With Heart Cut Out - SOLD
Dimensions: 26-inch height, 9.75-inch seat height, 14.75-inch width, 17-inch depth.
287-27 - SOLD
Large Pine Table-Bench
New England
Circa 1825
The rectangular top on large cleats above a hinged storage compartment raised on cutout legs. The table is successfully designed, well made, and functional and has a nice dry surface and good patina. (Height: 30.75 inches; Seat Height: 15.5 inches; Top: 71.75 x 30.25 inches.)
Price: $6,400
393-1
Pair Of Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs
Massachusetts, probably Boston
Circa 1775
This carved mahogany side chair with a serpentine crest ending in molded scrolled terminals above the openwork pierced scroll owl splat; above the over-upholstered trapezoidal seat frame; on frontal square beaded legs joined to the chamfered rear legs by square H-stretcher. The chairs have good rich color and are in fine condition. (Height: 37.5 inches; Seat Height: 17.5 inches; Width: 21.5 inches; Depth: 18 inches.)
Price: $5,400
492-9
A Pair of Delaware Valley Ladder-Back Side Chairs
In original blue green paint...great patina
Circa 1800-1820
The four arched slats set into slightly tapering stiles with very nice acorn finials above original splint seats; front legs with reel and compressed ball turnings; top of front legs with turnip feet extend beyond the seats and are incised with concentric circles. Fine condition. (Height: 38.75-inches; seat height: 15.75-inches; seat dimensions are 17.25 across the front with a depth of 14.5-inches.)
Price: $2,950
422-1
Queen Anne Flattop Highboy
Eighteenth Century
New England, butternut and white pine
The top case with bold cornice having two short drawers over three graduated long overlapping drawers; restored mid-molding sits within the original base molding of lower case. The base with sophisticated skirt is raised on cabriole legs ending in pad feet; two overlapping drawers, the lower drawer molded simulating three short drawers with a splendid central fan having 18-lobes. Although mounted within the original holes the brasses are replaced; all but one knee bracket are old replacements with one fishtail being replaced. The twentieth century resin stained surface is tinted red. (Top case: 35 5/8 by 17.25-inches; lower case: 38 by 19-inches; widest dimension at mid-molding: 39 1/8-inches; height: 72.5-inches.)
Price: $12,500
467-2
Tall Clock...with best Masonic dial
Scotland
Circa 1835
A small mahogany case with an eight-day movement and enameled dial.
The incredible dial has all Masonic symbols and even a compass and square motif forming the spandrels. The hands are original including second bit and calendar; clock is mechanically fine and stands at 88.75-inches.
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Price: $6,500
980-2
19th Century Wagon Bench
Measures 29-inches in overall height, with a seat height of 15-inches, width of 35.75-inches and depth of 15.25-inches.
Price: $3,500
208-13
Turned great-chair with oversized pommels and tallest finials...
Early, large and substantial
New London County, Connecticut
Circa 1680
Ash
This monumental chair may fill this gap in the object record. While the chair assumes the basic configuration of archetypical New London County turned-chairs, it exhibits subtle structural and ornamental variations that suggest a probable earlier date of manufacture. Overall, the chair is larger and more substantial than the standard New London County turned-chair. The posts are massive, exceeding 2.5-inches in diameter. The finials are the tallest and most robust examples known. The posts are turned with a dense sequence of urns, rings, and incised lines that reflects the compressed character of mid 17th-century turned ornament. Additionally, the chair is constructed entirely of ash, a wood more familiar to immigrant turners than the maple used for the pots of virtually all other New London County turned-chairs.
Condition
This New London County great-chair has sustained some loss and damage during the course of its use. However, the visual and academic importance of the chair balances any issues of condition. When old upholstery was removed, the shaped profiles were lost from the upper edges of the slats. These missing elements have been restored based upon the pattern of other intact New London County turned-chairs. The posts have been extended about 6", although the lower row of stretchers is intact. Probably during the 19th-century, a horizontal brace was installed behind the finials. This addition necessitated the removal of the back profile of the finials and top section of the posts, a missing element also recently restored. The present coat of black paint dates to the 20th-century.
References
Another New London County turned-chair with unusually heavy ash posts is owned by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and is illustrated in American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, p. 2; catalog entry f-2. Other information is available by request.
Price: $21,000
621-18
Hudson River Valley Kas
Eighteenth Century
Gumwood
The upper section with outstanding deeply molded stepped cornice above frame featuring twin paneled doors with rectangular moldings that center molded stiles and the integral dividing panel all with glyphs. The top case rests on the lower case with exposed dovetails and a row of two short drawers with diamond elements applied to the rail then raised on a beautiful compound molding above the tall boldly scrolled flat bracket feet. The interior is fitted with two full shelves, a quarter shelf and single short drawer. The cornice is 75.5-inches by 27.75-inches; dimensions of case are 60 by 19.75-inches.
Price: $25,500
497-11
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