Sold for:
$64,350
$64,350
Delaware Valley maple and pine banister back side chair, ca. 1710 , the carved arch crest over a star punched back and rush seat, supported by turned legs with double stretchers. Illustrated in Joseph Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair , fig. 12. Another chair from the same set and purportedly belonging to John Gill I, founder of Haddonfield, New Jersey, is in the Newark Museum and illustrated in Fairbanks and Bates, American Furniture 1620 to the Present , pg. 71. For a similar example, see Lindsey, Worldly Goods , pg. 117, fig. 183.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2007-04-21
