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American & Southern | March 13, 2025

Thu, Mar 13, 2025 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1042

Nantucket Attributed Brace Back Windsor Armchair

Estimate: $500 - $700

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18th/19th century, with a scroll ear crest, shaped hand grips, traces of early green paint, mixed woods with walnut, hickory, and shaped white pine plank seat, baluster turned arm supports, 39-1/2 x 28 x 19 in.; together with a black and gold painted Windsor side chair, black paint over earlier red, 36-1/2 x 19 x 14-1/2 in.

Provenance: (armchair) Northeast Auctions, August 3rd, 2012, lot 771 for $1,300; Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection

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(armchair) Northeast Auctions, August 3rd, 2012, lot 771 for $1,300; Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection

armchair in good structural condition, plank seat with later butterfly patch at underside, old refinishing with some traces of green paint; side chair with later paint with surface wear and scattered losses, old surface loss at back of crest, possibly as made