Lot 506
A Federal Paint-Decorated Side Chair, early 19th c., probably Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the crest tablet decorated with a beribboned crossed torch and quiver, the pierced splat displaying bow and arrows with a flaming torch all tied with a green painted bow, the caned seat with conforming decoration on turned legs painted with gilt stripes and leaves, joined by stretchers, height 33 1/2 in. Note: This chair relates closely to known seating furniture from several Portsmouth houses. A painted settee branded with the owner's label of Portsmouth, New Hampshire ship captain Lewis Barnes (1776-1856) with similar crest rail, stiles and a nearly identical pierced splat to that on this lot are in the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The back stiles, legs and stretchers are identical to those on a side chair acquired by merchant James Rundlet and in the Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, as well as to a chair purportedly belonging to New Hampshire Governor John Langdon now conserved by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston.
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