Maple and Oak Low-back Chair

Description:

Maple and Oak Low-back Chair, Boston, c. 1660-80, the blocked, bulbous-turned, raked stiles conform with the front legs joining a frontal bulbous turned front stretcher centering a ring, with square double side stretchers and square rear legs, old surface, retains vestiges of very early linen webbing strips, ht. 35, seat ht. 19 in.

Note: This chair was for many years at 87 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston.

Provenance: Estate of Charles P. Fisher.

Literature: In Jonathan Fairbanks and Robert Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Trent discusses in detail an identical chair (lacking its feet),which is illustrated as plate 284, p. 288. And, in Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles, (Yale University Press, 2007),the author discusses and illustrates a very similar chair as catalogue number 23, which still retains its original turkey-work upholstery, pp. 65-68.
Estimate $8,000-12,000


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