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Selections of Fine Americana from the Millhiser Collection
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- Sale 1319
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Sale 1319
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Estimate$4,000 – $6,000
Provenance:
By descent through the Eddy Family, Warren, Rhode Island,
Collection of Philip Flayderman, Boston, Massachusetts,
Sold by American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, The Philip Flayderman Collection-Historic American Furniture, January 2-4, 1930, lot 493,
American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, January 9, 1932, lot 81,
Israel Sack, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, November 23, 1932,
E. Ross (1894-1971), and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,
Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.
Literature:
"American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., advertisement," The Magazine Antiques, 16, no. 6 (December 1929), pg. 451.
"Furniture Items from the Year's Sales," The Magazine Antiques, 17, no. 4 (April 1930), pg. 329, fig. 2.
"100 Important American Antiques" auction catalogue of 1932, pl. 80.
Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), pg. 63, ill.
Albert Sack, Israel Sack, a Record of Service: 1903-1953 (1954), pgs. 36-37,
Patricia Kane, Art & Industry in Early America Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830 (Yale
University Press, 2016), pgs. 254-256.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, New Jersey: MMI Americana Press, 1984), pgs. 248, 256, fig. 6.2a.
Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture (1998), pgs. 33–34, fig. 53.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 5n15, 257n2.
Rhode Island Furniture Archives (RIF755).
refinished, but retaining nice even color to surface; Half of back left-facing leg spliced and mended- with partially replaced section; center stretcher probably replaced; underside of right-facing side of stretcher where it meets side stretcher with screw holes, where a former brace was installed; evidence of former casters to underside of feet; with minor age cracks and surface wear to feet commensurate with age; nicely upholstered in contemporary fabric, which is mostly clean overall
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Andrew Taggart
Associate Vice President, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
