Sold for:
$3,819
$3,819
Windsor Maple and Hickory High-back Windsor Armchair, Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1760-70, the shaped concave crest on turned spindles and back continuing to scrolled arm terminals on fourteen vase and ring-turned spindles and arm supports, and D-shaped saddle seat on splayed turned legs joined by turned cross-stretchers, old refinish, (imperfections and restoration), ht. 44 3/4, seat ht. 15 1/2 in. Note: Underside of seat lettered in yellow paint "Loaned to/ G.B. Reynolds/ by/ O.M. Atkinson/ May 18, 1880." Literature: American Windsor Chairs , by Nancy Goyne Evans, pg. 238, fig. 6-1, shows an identical example from the collection at Winterthur.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-11-04
