Sold for:
$15,275
$15,275
Maple Easy Chair, Boston, Massachusetts, 1710-1725, the crest continues to shaped wings above outwardly scrolling arms and a serpentine shirt which joins block and ring-turned front legs connected to the square raking rear legs by similar side stretchers, the medial stretcher is ring-turned, swelled and blocked, old black paint, 20th century cotton show cover, (restoration), ht. 49, seat ht 19 in. Literature: A stylistically similar chair is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. See American Furniture 1620- Present , Jonathan Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bates, p. 79, N.Y. 1981.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2004-06-06
