Sale 1319
| New York
| New York
Estimate$4,000 – $6,000
Provenance:
Possible Line of Descent:
Amelia Foulke Custard (1753-1811), Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
Mary Custard Spencer (1792-1821), Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Confirmed Line of Descent:
Mrs. J. Amory Haskell (Margaret Moore Riker Haskell, 1864-1942) Red Bank, New Jersey,
Purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, October 11, 1944, lot 597,
E. Ross (1894-1971) and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,
Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.
Literature:
Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), pg. 29.
refinished, but with even surface throughout; seat frame numbered "VIIII," the seat numbered "I."; repaired crack to right-facing side upper edge- at crest / stile attachment; the through tenons with some fill- evidence of some reinforcement; small horizontal scratch to shell; with some minor abrasions or knicks to seat rail; crack to rail corner above left-facing front knee
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