Armchair
New York
Circa 1800
Complex pierced splat with cutout hearts
The outline of the back and shape of top rail conforms to those generally known to have been made at New York with some southwestern Connecticut influence. The yoke shaped crest rail having rounded ear-shoulders is pinned to the turned and tapered stiles. The complex design of the pierced splat is outstanding; openwork heart above a lyrical form centered by a double figure eight above the out swept bottom section with yet another heart; splat is let into the shaped lower back rail. The set back out swept flat arms with shaped handholds are let into stiles and pinned; supported by rapidly transitioned robust turned down-weighted arm supports that are tenoned into turned side stretchers. The corner blocked seat above turned and tapered front legs joined by ring, reel and compressed ball turnings. The chair is in old black paint. (Height; 43-inches; seat height: 15.5-inches; width: 22-inches; depth: 16.25-inches; height of arm from floor is 23.75-inches.)
$9,750
570-142
Armchair, Ladder Back, Mushroom Handholds
Old green paint over original green paint
New England
18th Century
The turned back posts retaining original finials, centering four arched slats; front posts with mushroom handholds above turned ornamentation. The turned arm rest above original trapezoidal splint seat; the posts joined by double stretcher system. This chair has been de-rockerized and displays height loss. Very old, probably 19th century, crusty green paint over original green. Height: 44.75 inches; seat height: 14.5 inches; width: 26.5 inches; depth: 18 inches.
$3,195
745-22
Armchair, Ladder Back
New England
Mid 18th Century
Maple
This chair having three arched slats, robustly turned front and back posts, and finials; down swept carved arms above trapezoidal seat...the legs joined by turned box stretcher system, the front stretchers are sausage turned. Old surface. (Height: 43.25 inches; seat height: 16.5 inches; width: 25.5 inches; depth: 17 inches.)
$2,875
637-62
Armchair, Four slat ladder back
Bergin County, New Jersey
Circa 1750
Ash and maple
This example in old surface featuring classic Bergin County urn finials, carved down-sloped arms with robust scrolled handholds on ball-turned posts; trapezoidal seat in old natural rush raised on turned posts joined by stretcher system, the front stretchers sausage turned. (Height: 43-inches; Seat height: 15.5-inches.)
$5,965
632-19
Bannister Back Side Chair
New England
18th Century
Maple
As depicted, excellent condition...refinished.
Dimensions: 44-inch overall height, 17.25-inch seat height, 19-inches wide, 14-inches deep.
$625
903-55
Braced Bow-Back Windsor Armchair
Pipe-Stem Spindles...mahogany arms
Probably Rhode Island
Circa 1775-1785
The pipe-stem spindles are received by the double incised bow as are two spindles forming the brace back; down-sloping double-incised mahogany arms with scrolled handholds rest on baluster and ring turned supports and delicate pipe stem spindles. The well defined shaped-saddle-seat with incised gutter is raised on baluster and ring turned legs joined by robust stretchers that are bold in their swelling and tapering. The chair remains in excellent condition; surface has been cleaned to expose old green paint. (Height: 38.5-inches; seat height: 17.25-inches.)
$6,850
514-156
Square-Back Windsor Side-Chairs
With Decorated Medallions...in old surface
New England
Circa 1820
As depicted, the top rail above crest-medallion ornamented with painted shield and leafy sprays; as is often encountered with duck-bill backs, the employment of false mitered corners where crest rail meets back post. Seven turned and tapered spindles above shield-shaped seat raised on incised legs joined by box stretcher. Wonderful dry painted surface. (Height: 33.5 inches; seat height: 18 inches; width: 16.75 inches; depth: 16.25 inches.)
$3,500
637-67
Arm Chair
Connecticut...probably Milford-Fairfield area
Maple, ash and poplar
Circa 1710-1800
A very good great chair with high openwork crest rail, turned back posts, reeded banisters; shaped handholds and turned double front and side stretchers is a variant of the "heart and crown" tradition. The chair has a rich patina and remains in fine condition having lost less than one inch of height. (Height: 46.25-inches; seat height: 16 3/8-inches; width at widest point is 24 3/8-inches.) See Connecticut Furniture of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Wadsworth Athenaeum, 1967; plates 211 and 212 for nearly identical examples.
Price: $15,875
178-1
Country Chippendale Armchair
New England
Circa 1760-1780
As depicted, a birch armchair in red wash having a serpentine crest rail above pierced owl splat flanked by down-swept arms with scrolled handholds on turned baluster supports centering a woven rush trapezoidal seat…raised on sausage and block-turned legs joined buy turned box stretcher; ambitiously turned ball and reel front stretcher. (Height: 38 inches; seat height: 16 inches; width: 21.5 inches; depth: 19.75 inches.)
$2,565
295-26
Ladder-Back Armchair...in great red paint
New England
Circa 1730-1780
Maple and ash
As depicted, four shaped splats centered by turned and incised rear posts retaining original finials. The front posts with large handholds, and rear posts are similarly turned and incised and are joined by robust arms and double stretcher arrangement. The trapezoidal seat is woven ash-splint and may be original. Lovely crusty 19th century red paint over darker paint; great surface and patina.
The rear legs are ended-out with 3.75-inches being pieces; front legs are ended-out with 2.5-inches being pieced.
Height: 44 inches; seat height: 17 inches; width: 23.5 inches; depth: 15.5 inches.
$3,175
629-4
Sack-Back Windsor Arm Chair
New England
Circa 1780-1800
In very old black paint over original green; dry surface with good patina...constructed of mixed words, the rounded crest rail with six spindles above the medial rail with flat out-swept shaped handholds above turned arm-supports above shaped plank seat having exaggerated shaped pontil. The carved and shaped seat is raised on turned splayed legs joined by the swelled "H" stretcher. This example enjoys generous proportions and is accommodating and comfortable. (Height: 38 inches; seat height: 18 inches; width: 24.5 inches; depth: 15.25 inches.)
$3,250
350-81
Set of 4 Chelsmford, Mass. Banister Back Chairs
C. 1730.
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.
$23,485
ACD
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.
$1,625
573-2
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
Pair Of Windsor Fan-Back
Side Chairs
New England
Circa 1800
Arched crest with upswept ears above seven spindles flanked by tapered bamboo turned stiles above saddle shaped seat raised on splayed turned legs joined by turned H-form stretcher. Old black paint. (Height: 36 inches; seat height: 16.5 inches; width: 16.25 inches; depth: 15.5 inches.)
Price: $1,750
731-39
CURLY MAPLE
Set of Seven
Country Sheraton Fancy Chairs
Circa 1840-1850
A set of seven fancy chairs constructed of curly and birds eye maple that were made during the first half of the 19th century; possibly Connecticut. Each side chair in the Hitchcock (or local competing shop) style; the bolster top rails joined to back-swept stiles with rolled ears. Centering the stiles are scrolled splats above plain splats. The trapezoidal woven rush seats with corner blocks feature turned and split front rail molding and conforming flat side and back moldings. The seats are raised on cylindrical turned and splayed legs joined by stretches...the front stretches being ambitiously turned. This set of chairs is functional and ready for family use. (Height: 34.25 inches; seat height: 18.5 inches; width: 17.75 inches; depth: 15.75 inches.)
$3,875
793-1
Set Of Six Windsor Side Chairs
With maker's stencil...
Walter Corey
Portland, Maine
Circa 1844-1855
The stenciled name and address on each seat bottom-Walter Corey Manufacture-Nos. 52 and 54 Exchange Street-Portland, ME. assigns the period of manufacture to the 1844-1855 period. During the 1840's the loaf shaped tablet was a popular Corey shop tradition. Standard decoration includes bunches of grapes, detailed leaves and tendrils; by graining, stenciling and trimming in paint...this matched set of five with one closely related chair having the same stencil is decorated as described above. The decorated tablet above turned posts centering four tapering spindles above the shaped plank seat with a half-round piece of wood attached to the front underside of seat producing a full roll. The seat is raised on turned legs that are stylistically within the Corey shop tradition ending in ball feet that are joined by the turned box stretchers. The chairs are functional; some imperfections. (Height: 32.5 inches; seat height: 17.5 inches; width: 15.75 inches; depth: 14.5 inches.)
$925
547-1
MATCHED SET OF FOUR
Fiddle-Back Side Chairs
Probably Eastern Connecticut
Second half-eighteenth century...
Carved yoke crest rail above vasiform splat flanked by nicely turned posts; the rush seat raised on baluster and ring turned legs joined by stretchers...the front stretch having turned bulbous orbs. Nineteenth century reddish-brown paint over original surface history. (Height: 41 inches; seat height: 16.75 inches; width: 19 inches; depth: 15 inches.)
$7,675
410-27
Queen Anne Side Chair
Essex County, Massachusetts
Circa 1760
Maple
The carved yoke top rail joined by plain tapered spooned-stiles centering the graceful spooned splat and incised lower rail; trapezoidal seat with corner blocks above vigorously turned legs ending in shapely turned pad feet. The legs are joined by turned box stretcher; exuberant ball and ring front stretcher that is complimented by pronounced side and rear stretchers; side stretchers with central groves, ridges and tapered ends. The rear stretcher swells at center and is incised. The chair is in a nice old, possibly original surface. (Height: 40.75 inches; seat height: 17.5 inches; width: 18.75 inches; depth: 15 inches.)
$1,950
197-15
Pair of Windsor Bow Back Side Chairs
New England
In Later Green Paint
Circa 1800
Nine tapered and swelling spindles within incised bow above the shield shaped seat, raised on bamboo turned legs joined by "H" stretcher. The chairs are full height.
Dimensions: height to back- 37.875-inches; seat- 17.75-inches tall, 17.5-inches wide and 15-inches deep.
$2,175
223-13
Great Chair
New York
Circa 1700
Old red paint
Elaborate finials above ring and sausage turned 2-inch posts; shaped slats are slightly curved...the outward flaring draw-shaven flat arms above elaborately turned intermediate stretcher between arm and seat rail. The front posts and rear posts are at full height and are joined by turned stretchers; rockers were added and removed. The chair is in excellent condition with one front stretcher missing, the other froth stretcher needs to be reinstalled; our restorer is able to expertly turn and match the missing stretcher. (Height: 44.25 inches; seat height: 16 inches; width: 24.25 inches; depth: 16 inches.)
$5,800
287-54
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