Sold for:
$8,190
$8,190
Massachusetts turned maple great chair, late 17th c. , the back with 3 arched slats flanked by sausage and ring turned arms above a rush seat and similarly turned stretchers, retaining remnants of an old Spanish brown surface. For further discussion of similar chairs see Trent & Goldstein, American Furniture , 1998, edited by Beckerdite, pg. 215. For a nearly identical example, see the Collection of J. Stodgell Stokes, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., March 1948, lot 132.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2007-04-21
