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Pair of Federal-style Painted and Decorated Oval-back Side Chairs, A.H. Davenport, Boston, c. 1892-1900.
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Pair of Federal-style Painted and Decorated Oval-back Side Chairs,
white with five-plume painted Prince of Wales splats gathered by blue painted and carved bows accented with gold and red and delicately decorated with trailing green vines, blue flowers and red roses on the crest and front legs, over-upholstered seats with serpentine front rails and bowed side rails above square tapering vine-decorated front legs ending in spade feet, and square saber-like rear legs.
Ht. 38 1/2, seat ht. 18 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
The provenance of this set of oval-backed chairs manufactured by A. H. Davenport is:
Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917)
to his daughter Katharine Putnam Peabody (1877-1955)
to her children Mary Derby Peabody and Cora Weld Peabody
and thereafter to a descendant.
These chairs are part of a set made ca. 1892-1900 for the Boston architect Robert Swain Peabody to replicate original chairs made ca. 1795-1800 for his ancestor Elias Hasket Derby of Salem. When Anna Huidekoper Peabody inherited the original Elias Hasket Derby chairs upon the death of her mother Mary Jane Derby Peabody in 1892, her brother Robert Swain Peabody used the originals as models for copies for his own use.
Note
A chair from this set branded "A. H. Davenport Co./ Boston. New York." is in the collection of Historic New England.



