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Lot 257
Description:
An Important American Classical Fancy-Painted Grecian Sofa, early 19th c., New York, outscrolled arms centered by tablet splats, old rush seat, saber legs on spherule feet; the whole with a striated aquamarine ground, Classical motifs executed in yellow, red and black with gilt highlights, the legs in "fish scale" paint-decoration, curly maple secondary wood, height 34 in., length 71 in., width 23 in.
- Notes: Note: A painted and rush seat sofa conserved by the Brooklyn Museum and attributed to New York makers P. and B.R. Thomas or John Cowperthwaite, nearly identical to that seen here, was included in Berry B. Tracy¹s seminal Classical America 1815-1845 exhibition. A pair of painted sofas, also closely related to this lot, are part of the furnishings commissioned for William Crogan¹s "Picnic House" in Pittsburgh and now in the Carnegie Museum. Reference: Tracy Classical America 1815-1845, fig. 26; Cooper. Classical Taste in America, p. 140, pl 100.
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March 27, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
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