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RARE AND IMPORTANT WILLIAM AND MARY BANISTER-BACK ARMCHAIR

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, CA. 1725
Primary wood: maple, rush seat.
All elements of the chair are original, except for rush seat and 19th c. varnish-finish.
Repairs to crest, some joints re-pinned.

Literature:
John Kenneth Byard Antiques Advertisement, The Magazine Antiques, (July 1953), vol. 64 7;
David Warren, American Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection, (Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston distributed by the New York Graphic Society, 1975), p. 10, fig. 13;
Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era, (Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984), p. 327, fig. 85b;
David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman and Emily Ballew Neff, American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 8, no. F14;
Michael K. Brown, America’s Treasures at Bayou Bend: Celebrating Fifty Years, (London: Scala Publishers in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007), p. 9 (with Ima Hogg sitting in the chair) and 35.

Provenance:
John Kenneth Byard, Norwalk , Connecticut;
Mrs. Ima Hogg, Houston, Texas, 1953;
Bayou Bend Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1969;
Neal Auction Company, Fall Estates Auctions, September 12, 2009, lot 273.
From the Collection of Dr. Larry McCallister, 2022.

More Information

Period:	18th Century
Creation Date:	ca. 1725
Styles / Movements:	Traditional, William & Mary
Dealer Reference #:	F-SF-CH 274
Incollect Reference #:	616054

Dimensions

W.	24.5 in;	H.	51 in;	D.	21.5 in;
W.	62.23 cm;	H.	129.54 cm;	D.	54.61 cm;

Seat H.	17.5 in;
Seat H.	44.45 cm;

Message from Seller:

Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.

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