$79,950
Set of Twelve Carved Mahogany and Mahogany Veneer Grecian Side Chairs, Boston, c. 1815-25, the scrolled leaf-carved backs centering panels above deeply curved molded stiles continuing to scroll-carved seat rails, flanking the splat with carved drapery and scrolled anthemia, the upholstered seats on leaf-carved molded shaped legs joined by a front rail with angled reeding centering leaves, (imperfections and repairs), ht. 33 3/4, seat ht. 18 in. Provenance: Descended in the Fales family of Boston, possibly originally owned by a resident of the Fales House, one of nineteen neoclassical homes designed c. 1810 by Charles Bulfinch and known as Colonnade Row. Literature: For an illustration and discussion of an identical chair (one of a pair owned by Winterthur), see Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 , the Baltimore Museum of Art, Abbeville Press, 1993, fig. 77, pp. 112-15.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-11-19
