Live Auction 2729Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Paintings and Prints including Masterworks from the Westervelt Company and Selections from Thomas Molesworth's Ranch A Commission
A PAIR OF GREEN-PAINTED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 71 PROPERTY FROM THE WESTERVELT COMPANY

A PAIR OF GREEN-PAINTED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIRS

BRANDED BY JOSEPH HENZEY (1743-1796), PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed25 September 2013

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A PAIR OF GREEN-PAINTED FAN-BACK WINDSOR SIDE CHAIRS
BRANDED BY JOSEPH HENZEY (1743-1796), PHILADELPHIA, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
underside of both seats branded I:Henzey
37½ in. high (2)

Possibly Judge William Sever (1729-1809), Kingston, Massachusetts
Purchased out of the Sever House in Kingston, Massachusetts
Jess Pavey, Birmingham, Michigan
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, Birmingham, Michigan
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Henry Meyer, 20 January 1996, lot 147

Specialist note

A very similar chair bearing the same brand is illustrated in Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, vol. II (Philadelphia, 1987), p. 71, fig. 43. With their scrolled ears, crisp turnings and broad, well-defined saddle seats, these chairs are elegant Windsor forms.