6 PAINT-DECORATED WINDSOR CHAIRS IN AN UNKNOWN, WHIMSICAL FORM

Paint-decorated American pedestal table with toleware style decoration and gameboard-like graphics, 1830-1840, northern new England origin: Small-scale American card table with a scalloped top and skirt, a square, tapered pedestal, and a scalloped base with spherical bun feet. The white-painted background is beautifully embellished with shades of scarlet red, green, blue, and tan, using a design that is precisely what is seen on tole-painted American tin ware...

Mid-19th century, plank seat, paint-decorated settee in apple green with bell flowers, grapes & flora, 1845-1865 Paint-decorated, Pennsylvania, plank-seat settee of the mid-19th century (1845-65), in the half-spindle-back style with an angel wing crest rail. The background is apple green with black and green striping and gold gilding on the bulbous turnings. The theorem-like registers on the crest rails are typical of rural Pennsylvania chairs...

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Paint-Decorated Dower Chest, Made for Madlen Nafzer in 1808 This colorful Pennsylvania German dower chest, with pinwheels and tiny flowers on Robin's egg blue tombstone panels, set on a salmon ground, was found with the descendents of Madlen Nafzer of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Passed down through her family for several generations, the chest is accompanied by a softbound book that details the history of the Nafzer family. It tells the basic story of the woman for whom the chest was made in 1808; of how her family arrived on American soil and of their subsequent moves from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Indiana with the migrating Pennsylvania Dutch Community. Past its striking color and decoration, one of the most spectacular things about this particular chest is its untouched paint surface and early condition. While a lateral portion of the left, back foot is absent, broken and lost during the family's possession, the back of the foot is present and extremely stabile. This had been broken, presumably at the same time, but the original piece was kept and I personally doweled it back into place. I made no attempt to replace the missing side portion, so that the chest could be kept in this unspoiled form, a rare thing among surviving Pennsylvania Dower chests...

Pennsylvania German (Amish or Mennonite) paint-decorated blanket chest of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania origin. Extensive smoke decoration on a ch...

American Sheraton Windsor fancy chair in original oxide red painted finish with accent bands of green. There is a hexagonal inset design on top of the seat and a circular inset under...

19th century high back windsor rocker has bamboo turnings and has a brown painted surface. The condition is very good.

This charming mid-19th century English low back Windsor chair is a true gem of antique craftsmanship. The chair's distinctive bent yew wood crest rail, gracefully curved and supporte...

This wonderful 19th century original paint decorated windsor rocking chair is in great condition. The stencil is gilded paint on a mustard painted ground. This rocking chair was foun...