LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mahogany

Measurements:

39.25 in. (99.69 cm.) (height)

Literature:

The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF3006 (along with 4 additional chairs from the original set).

Provenance:

Possibly commissioned by John Brown (1736-1803) for the 1801 wedding of his daughter, Sarah Brown (1774-1846) and Charles Frederick Herreshoff II (1763-1819), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point, Bristol, Rhode Island Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (1809-1888), son of above, and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis (1811-1901), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point and 142 Hope Street, Bristol, Rhode Island Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938), Bristol, Rhode Island, son, by gift from above in 1884 Algernon Sydney DeWolf Herreshoff (1886-1977), son Halsey Chase Herreshoff (b. 1933), son Sotheby’s New York, 17 June 1998, lot 1197