Lot 452
A Pair of American or English Paint-Decorated Arm Chairs in the Hepplewhite Taste, c. 1800, each with shield back with plume and urn painted splat, delicate floral festoons on stiles, the trapezoidal over-upholstered seat on turned tapering legs with trompe-l'oeil fluting, the whole painted with a yellow ground, old silk upholstery present, height 36 1/2 in. E25000-35000 Note: The stylish Adam decoration of these two chairs uses a yellow ground to set off painted floral and plumed decoration. In 1801 a Connecticuit cabinet maker describes the process of "Laying on of your Colering (sic), for outdore work it must be mixed with linsid oil, but for indoor work it may be mixed with strong beer or milk." see Dean Fales, American Painted Furniture 1660-1880, p. 98. The use of beech (as in this pair of chairs) as a primary and secondary wood for Federal painted seating furniture in New England is documented by Charles Montgomery in American Furniture of the Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, pp. 36-37.
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