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THBThe John Brown Pair of White Painted Bow-Back Brace-Back Upholstered, Windsor Side Chairs
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LiveSep 10, 2025
Property Descended in and Collected by the De Wolf, Herreshoff, and Brown Families September 10, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT We are honored to present a remarkable auction featuring the historic collections of three prominent Rhode Island families: the De Wolfs, the Herreshoffs, and the Browns. This exceptional event offers a rare opportunity to acquire significant objects passed down through generations of Rhode Island heritage. Preview Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm Nye & Co. info@nyeandcompany.com
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The John Brown Pair of White Painted Bow-Back Brace-Back Upholstered
Windsor Side Chairs
Made by James and William Ash, New York, circa 1790. One with legs extended.
Appears to retain their original white painted surface. Lacking upholstery on one chair seat. Underside of seat with original paper label inscribed Thomas and William Ash, Windsor Chair Makers, No. 17 John Street, New-York. Another label affixed to underside of seat inscribed Sofas, Settees, tool-back and all other CHAIRS; Double & single drapery and all fashionable CURTAINS, With every Article in the Upholstery Line, Feather-Beds, & c. FOR SALE, By J. BYLES, No. 4, Water-street, NEW-YORK. Particular attention paid to the FASHIONS . Rooms neatly PAPERED.
Provenance: John Brown (1736-1803), Providence, Rhode Island;
To his daughter, Sarah Brown Herreshoff (1773-1846);
To her son Charles Frederick Herreshoff (1809-1888);
Thus by descent in the Herreshoff Family line
Literature: Wendy Ann Cooper, “The Furniture and Furnishings of John Brown, Merchant of Providence, 1736-1803,†University of Delaware, Master’s Thesis, 1971, pp. 48-9, figs. 12 and 13;
Wendy A. Cooper, “The purchase of furniture and furnishings by John Brown, Providence merchant, Part 1: 1760-1788,†Magazine Antiques 103, no. 2 (February 1973): 335, figs. 12 & 12a;
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), pp. 129, 389-90, note 2
This pair of chairs is very rare survival where the makers and the upholster of the chair is known. Made by the sons of the noted New York cabinetmaker Gilbert Ash, these chairs are very rare survivors of the developing Windsor chair manufacturing industry in New York City during the late eighteenth century. After the Revolution the Ash’s are documented to have shipped theirs chairs as far south as Williamsburg, Virgina and to various northern New England port cities (see Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1996, pp. 194-7). The upholster Josiah Byles is noted to have come from Boston and died in New York in 1791 (see Rita Susswein Gottesman, The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1799: Advertisements and News Items from New York City Newspapers, (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1954), p. 143, no. 462).
36 1/2 in. (92.7 cm.)Condition
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