Lot 880
An American Rococo Polychromed Bedroom Suite, mid-19th Century attributed to Hart, Ware & Co., Philadelphia, comprising four side chairs, writing table, mirrored dresser, bedside commode, bedstead, and a washstand; the chairs with scalloped crest rail and pierced slats, shaped seat on spindle turned legs; the writing table with astragal top above a plain apron on cabriole legs with sabot feet and brass casters; the wash stand with scalloped backsplash flanked by towel racks above two drawers and two doors on bun feet; the dresser with pivoting oval mirrorplate above four graduated drawers, on bun feet; the commode with drawer over one door, on bun feet; the bedstead with scrolled pierced splat above paneled foot and headboard and blank pilaster supports (9 pcs.) E5000-7000 Note: Inspired by Louis Philippe precedents, several American makers, such as Hart, Ware & Co. adapted this "cottage" style of elaborate paint effects on simple forms. A black-ground, paint-decorated dresser by Hart, Ware & Co. with nearly identical form to the dresser in lot 880 is illustrated in Celia Jackson Otto, American Furniture of the 19th Century pl. 295. A similar group of painted furniture by the firm is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a suite of similar description was exhibited at the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition in New York.
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