Apple Green, Plank Seat, Paint-Decorated Settee, ca 1845-1865

Diminutive blanket box, in windsor green paint, with rare and beautiful unicorn stencils. Made ca 1820-1840, the chest was found in the Mahantango Valley of Pennsylvania. Very likely...

Pennsylvania hanging pie safe, in first surface green paint, with circular medallion and opposing fan decoration, circa 1850-1880 Pennsylvania hang...

Painted Schoharie County, New York blanket chest, decorated with a beautifully embellished yellow urn of flowers on a blue ground. This is traditional fashi...

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...

This settle or bench is early 20th Century, possibly older. Original green and red paint full of rustic charm and an exquisite example of folk craftsmanship. Wonderful natural colo...

Fine & rare antique American half-spindled Federal period painted & stenciled Windsor bench/settee, Baltimore, Circa 1820. A rare bench with the original chrome yellow painted and grapevine stenciling, the back rest with three grapevine painted panels and corresponding painted panels on the rails below. The bench has a half row of spindles on three sides (a typical feature of Baltimore benches...

19thc Hand Made and hand painted Settee three seater. Wonderful peach and leaf design. Found in Berks County Pennsylvania. Wonderful age and patina. Wonderful Green color and gold co...

Original hand painted folk art pine bench displays traditional brown faux wood background and floral motif. Solid back, slightly curved armrests and hinged bench seat revealing inter...