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AMERICAN SEATING

• FINE PAIR OF FEDERAL CARVED
  FINE PAIR OF FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY AND INLAID SATIN BIRCH SIDE CHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN AND THOMAS SEYMOUR, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS35 x 19 1/4 x 19 in., seat height 18 3/4 in. Note: This pair of chairs represents a fourth variation of Thomas and John Seymour's curved diamond back chairs. The same style is illustrated in Robert Mussey Jr.'s work, The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour ( Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum distributed by University Press of New England, 2003), on pp. 388-9, no. 127. Mussey explains this chair is "the sole example found during [his] study that was designed for full over-the-rail upholstery." Sold at Sotheby's New York in 2004, these chairs were from The Collection of Alice and Murray Braunfeld. A single chair, of the same style and attributed to John Seymour, is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It is listed as a gift of Mrs. Murray Braunfeld in 2006 (M.2006.51.21). Although it is rare that sets of these chairs remain, given the fragile nature of their construction, it is probable this pair and the single chair at LACMA are related. Two similar pairs of chairs probably by Thomas and John Seymour sold at Sotheby's New York in Property from the Collection of Dr. Larry McCallister, September 22, 2022, lots 98 and 99. According to Sotheby's catalog note: "The masterful execution and carefully conceived design of this side chair places it among the most sophisticated examples of scroll-back chairs made in Boston. The exquisite combination of light and dark woods, reeding and carving, and rectangles, quarter ellipses and diamonds results in a tour de force of the Federal aesthetic. The same overall configuration, wood combination and exceptional craftsmanship is found on chairs attributed to John and Thomas Seymour of Boston, whose furniture epitomizes the height of workmanship in Boston during the Federal period. Several similar sets of seating furniture are known. Once is represented by two settees and a pair of side chairs at Winterthur and a pair of side chairs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, all with out-turning front legs (see Charles Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period , nos. 37-9, pp. 90-2 and Edwin Hipkiss, M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts, 1941, no. 116). A chair at Bayou Bend and one at Yale University also with out-turning front legs offer another variation (see David Warren, et al, American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, 1997, F157, p. 99 and Patricia Kane, 3 00 Years of American Seating Furniture , 1976, no. 154, p. 174). Additional examples of the form representing two different sets are in the Kaufman Collection and the Henry ford Museum (see J. Michael Flanigan, no. 48, p. 134-5 and Vernon Stoneman, A Supplement to John and Thomas Seymour, Boston , 1965, no. 57). Another side chair of this type in the Kaufman Collection displays ring-turned reeded tapering legs related to those on this pair of side chairs (see Flanigan, no. 47, p. 132-3). Similar legs appear on an octagonal center table attributed to the Seymours that sold at Sotheby's, Sinking Spring Farms: The Appell Family Collection, January 18, 2003, sale 7867, Lot 1265. Condition Both in overall good condition with expected nicks and wear. Both with repairs and minor replacements to the back splats. Both with old repairs and replacements to the upper section of the front legs. New corner blocks underneath the seat. Finely carved and structurally sound. Not withstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.
• TWO ART DECO FOLDING THEATRE SEATS,
  TWO ART DECO FOLDING THEATRE SEATS, ILLUMINATEDend with Egyptian revival designs. Made by American Seating Co. reupholstered. Oak, maple, and cast iron. Individual seats measure 18" wide, 18" seat depth, and 18" seat height. Overall, the seats are 43 1/2" wide and 32" high.
• TEN BOOKS ON ANTIQUE DECORATIVE
  TEN BOOKS ON ANTIQUE DECORATIVE ARTS Mostly 4to (largest 12-1/2 in.), to include: Little by Little (1984); reprint of January 1922 Antiques magazine; New England Begins (1982), three volumes; Material Life in America 1600-1860 (1988); American Seating Furniture (1988); John Smibert (1995); Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania (1999); Southern Furniture 1680-1830 (1997); Mlinaric on Decorating (2008); American Furniture (2011);
• Important American Classical
  Important American Classical Parcel-Gilt, Ebonized and Ormolu-Mounted Rosewood Games Table, first quarter 19th century, attributed to the workshop of Duncan Phyfe, New York, the fold-over top with canted corners, the conforming frieze with a central ormolu mount, and smaller mounts at each corner, the bottom of the frieze with a die-stamped metal border, supported by winged caryatids joined to brass-strung harp brackets, the turned rear columns segmented with bulbous turnings and reeded drums, the concave base on carved and gilded hocked paw feet, h. 29", w. 39", d. 18". This games table exemplifies New York Classical furniture at its most exuberant. The use of winged caryatids is employed on a handful of tables of this period, most generally those associated with the workshop of Charles Honore' Lannuier, Phyfe�s principal competitor. Lannuier, a French emigre� cabinetmaker is best known for producing an American expression of furniture in the French Empire taste. The present table is a rare example of Phyfe�s interpretation of that style. This table shares a number of elements with other Phyfe furniture. The feet and rear columns, with their bulbous turnings and reeded sections, appear on other Phyfe, and Phyfe-school tables. (1) The deep concave molding on the edge of the lower platform also appears on a number of Phyfe tables. Lannuier's treatment of the lower platform generally is a flat vertical surface, sometimes framed at the perimeter or with applied ornament. Lyres utilizing brass rods are incorporated in the work of a number of Classical-era cabinetmakers. However, the use of brass rods to form an asymmetrical harp appears rarely. Brass-strung harps do appear in an elite group of American seating furniture in the Regency tradition, generally associated with the workshop of Duncan Phyfe. (2) The use of harp-form brackets on the present table is a motif consistent with Phyfe's decorative vocabulary. Notes: 1) Illustrations of similar columns on Phyfe tables to the rear column on the present table can be found in plate 71, of Honore' Lannuier Cabinetmaker from Paris, by Kenny, Bretter and Leben. That same table also utilizes identical parcel-gilt, foliate-carved and animal-paw feet. On page 124, the authors note that these columns are in the English Regency style. Similar columns and legs are illustrated in another Phyfe card table, and Pembroke table, plates 285 and plates 287 of McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency. 2) A Classical dining chair, attributed to Duncan Phyfe, is illustrated on plate 70 of Cooper, Classical Taste in America. Similar chairs are also illustrated and discussed in American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, plate 193, by Warren, Brown, Coleman and Neff; and plate 74 of Montgomery, American Furniture, the Federal Period.
• Books: Antique furniture
  Books: Antique furniture reference Weidman Gregory R. FURNITURE IN MARYLAND 1740-1940; Hurst Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown. SOUTHERN FURNITURE 1680-1830; Downs Joseph. AMERICAN FURNITURE; MacQuoid Percy. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE; Forman Benno M. AMERICAN SEATING FURNITURE 1630-1730; and 53 similar titles. (58pcs) Provenance: Estate of the late Francis D. ''Skeeter'' McNairy Savannah Georgia; from Mr. McNairy's research library. All books in useable shape with conditions ranging from fair to good. Many jackets torn or creased. Back    Inquiry      Previous Item   Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions.  Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678     © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
• Collection of books to include
  Collection of books to include Bishop The American Chair Kane 300 Years of American Seating Furniture Santore The Windsor Style... ?
• Thirty-One Books, American
  Thirty-One Books, American Furniture, Related detailed listing available. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Townsend, Newport Cabinet Maker; T. A. Strange, French Interiors: Furniture, Decoration; Connecticut Historical Society, Barbour's Furniture Collection, (two volumes); The Currier Gallery of Art, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture; Albert Sack, Fine Points of American Furniture; Albert Sack, Fine Points of American Furniture, (with dust jacket and signed by the author); Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (signed by the author); Sharon Garling, Chicago Furniture, Art, Craft & Industry, 1833-1983; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris; Gerald Ward, American Case Furniture; Louis Hinckley, Directory of the Historic Cabinet Woods; Dean Fales, American Painted Furniture, 1660-1880; Geoffrey Wills, Classic English Furniture; Robert Trent (editor), Pilgrim Century Furniture; Nicholas Wainwright, Colonial Grandeur in Philadelphia; Boston Art Center, The Wrought Covenant; Richard Randall, American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston; Patricia Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Plain and Fancy, New England Painted Furniture, (exhibition catalog); Patricia Kane, Furniture of the New Haven Colony, the 17th Century Style; Dean Fales, The Furniture of Historic Deerfield; Hurst and Prown, Southern Furniture, 1680-1830, (two copies); Milby Burton, Charleston Furniture, 1700-1825, (1955 and 1970 editions); Atlanta Historical Society, Neat Pieces: Plain Style Furniture of 19th Century Georgia, (one paper bound and one hardbound); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Furniture, 1760-1810; Charles Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period, dust jacket in poor condition; John Kirk, American Chairs, Queen Anne and Chippendale, dust jacket torn,
• Eighteen Books, American
  Eighteen Books, American Furniture Includes Works by Charles Montgomery, Israel Sack, and Others detailed listing available. Michael Flanigan, American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection; Dean Fales, American Painted Furniture 1660-1880; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Plain and Fancy: New England Painted Furniture; Barry Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg; Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair 1640-1970; Israel Sack, Fine Points of Furniture; Patricia Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture; John Kirt, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale, dust jacket in poor condition; Charles Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period; Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods; Heckscher and Bowman, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament; Jobe and Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era; Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America; Fairbanks and Bates, American Furniture 1630 to the Present; Morrison Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Sharon Darling, Chicago Furniture: Art, Craft and Industry 1833-1983; Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, Made in Ohio: Furniture 1788-1888; University of Virginia, Boston Furniture of the 18th Century,
• Four books on American antique
  Four books on American antique furniture including American Seating Furniture 1630-1730 by Foreman and Southern Furniture 1680-1830 Colonial Williamsburg Collection.
• U.S. military rack marked "American
  U.S. military rack marked "American Seating Co. 5-24-44", along with a brown Army blanket, 2 U.S. marked field packs, New Zealand marked water pouch, and 2 camouflage head masks. Estimate $25-50