Lot 5
The Eddy Family Set of Six Queen Anne Walnut Compass-Seat Side Chairs
Sale 1319 - Selections of Fine Americana from the Millhiser Collection
Jan 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
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Estimate
$50,000 -
100,000
Lot Description
The Eddy Family Set of Six Queen Anne Walnut Compass-Seat Side Chairs
Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1745
The front seat rail and slip seat of each example marked, most retain the original slip seat, including examples, "I, III, IIII, IIIII and IIIIII," the sixth example is marked, "VII," with slip seat, "VIII."
Height 41 3/8 x width 21 1/2 x depth 21 inches.
Height 41 3/8 x width 21 1/2 x depth 21 inches.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance:
By descent through the Eddy Family, Warren, Rhode Island,
The Collection of Philip Flayderman, Boston, Massachusetts,
Sold by American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, January 2-4, 1930, lot 492,
Israel Sack, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts,
American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., January 9, 1932, lot 80,
Israel Sack, Boston, Massachusetts Inventory Auction, 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. 450, ill.
"100 Important American Antiques" auction catalogue of 1932, pl. 80.
Albert Sack, "Israel Sack: A Record of Service 1903–1953," Israel Sack, Inc. (1953), pgs. 36–37.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, New Jersey: MMI Americana Press, 1984), pgs. 248, 255, fig. 6.2.
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. 52.
Milo M. Naeve, "A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 and Attributions to the Job Townsends of Newport," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, 72 (Spring 2003), pgs. 3, 13–17, charts I–II, IV, fig. 2.
Patricia Kane, Art & Industry in Early America Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830 (Yale University Press, 2016), pg. 254-256.
Rhode Island Furniture Archives (RIF214).
By descent through the Eddy Family, Warren, Rhode Island,
The Collection of Philip Flayderman, Boston, Massachusetts,
Sold by American Arts Association Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, January 2-4, 1930, lot 492,
Israel Sack, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts,
American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., January 9, 1932, lot 80,
Israel Sack, Boston, Massachusetts Inventory Auction, 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. 450, ill.
"100 Important American Antiques" auction catalogue of 1932, pl. 80.
Albert Sack, "Israel Sack: A Record of Service 1903–1953," Israel Sack, Inc. (1953), pgs. 36–37.
Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, New Jersey: MMI Americana Press, 1984), pgs. 248, 255, fig. 6.2.
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. 52.
Milo M. Naeve, "A New England Chair Design of 1730-1760 and Attributions to the Job Townsends of Newport," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, 72 (Spring 2003), pgs. 3, 13–17, charts I–II, IV, fig. 2.
Patricia Kane, Art & Industry in Early America Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830 (Yale University Press, 2016), pg. 254-256.
Rhode Island Furniture Archives (RIF214).
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