Lot 553
A Rare American Carved Oak House of Representatives Armchair, c. 1857 manufactured by Bembe and Kimbel, (1854-1863), New York, marked in ink Wister H. Brother, stenciled label A.Bembe A.Kimbel-928-Broadway- New York, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, the top rail cresting in a Federal shield decorated with stars and stripes, the stiles relief- carved with floral pendant chains, the bowed seat with a guilloche seatrail on carved vasiform legs with melon feet ending in casters, height 39 in., width 24 in., depth 27 in. E15000-25000 Provenance: High Museum, Atlanta; Virginia Carroll Crawford Coll. Note: See Art & Enterprise, p.366, pl. 216.
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