Live Auction 16796Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver and Prints
A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE CORNER CHAIR
Lot 1221 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE CORNER CHAIR

PROBABLY RHODE ISLAND, 1730-1760

Closed18 January 2019

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A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK-PAINTED MAPLE CORNER CHAIR
PROBABLY RHODE ISLAND, 1730-1760
31 ¼ in. high

The Collection of Mitchel M. Taradash (1889-1973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York
Thence by descent in the family

Specialist note

A corner or roundabout chair with closely related turnings and similarly shaped cut-outs in the splats descended in the Hazard family of Narragansett and is now in the collection of the Newport Restoration Foundation. Noted to have probably been made in Rhode Island, this related chair is recorded in the Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF4834.