$130,350
Pair of Carved and Turned Black-painted Maple Side Chairs, coastal New Hampshire or North Shore, Massachusetts, c. 1730, the arched and molded crests with flanking carved ears above conforming stiles and splats over block vase and ring-turned legs topped by concentric circles and joined by a bulbous medial stretcher and tripartite side stretchers, early surface of black paint over red, ht. 49, seat ht. 17 in. Provenance: Dodge-Healey Family, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, from the Meshech Weare auction of his belongings to the Healey family, thence to the consignor's husband. Literature: Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little, pp. 204-205, plates 269-270, shows an identical pair of chairs, which are currently in the collection of Historic New England in their Historic House Museum, Cogswell's Grant in Essex, Massachusetts, once the home of Bertram and Nina Fletcher Little.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-02-17
