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June 28, 2025: Premier Americana: Day Three

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  • Shenandoah Valley
Lot 2295

RARE SET OF SIX WINCHESTER, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA PAINTED FANCY CHAIRS

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$400

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

RARE SET OF SIX WINCHESTER, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA PAINTED FANCY CHAIRS, poplar and oak, each tablet crest with an applied rear roll above two ring-turned posts centering a narrow slat and a shaped woven-cane seat, raised on ball-and-cuff turned front legs and tapered splaying rear legs, joined by simple box stretchers. Each retains a stellar original painted surface exhibiting an elaborate rosewood graining with gold banding, still retaining its relatively untarnished gold-powdered surface highlighted with white pinstriping, the seats retain remnants of the original white paint. One bears the inscription "Hoover" to the underside of the seat frame. Probably the shop of David Russell, Jr. (Winchester, VA, active 1822-1898). Circa 1830. 31 1/2" HOA, 17 1/4" H seat, 15 1/4" x 17 1/4" OA seat.
Literature: Parallels Evans - Come In and Have a Seat, Vernacular Chairs of the Shenandoah Valley, p. 68, Chair 36. 
Catalogue Note: The name "Hoover" likely relates to the family who owned the chairs. There are numerous Hoovers who fit the time period in Winchester. To our knowledge, this is one of the only surviving sets that retains remnants of the painted surface on the seats, and it certainly has one of the most remarkably preserved sets known.

Condition

Fine original condition, each with scattered relatively minor paint losses; several examples with moderate breakage and damage to the seats; one with some very stable stress cracking to the seat frame, which appears almost to be under the painted surface, and may be as-made.

Provenance

From a Virginia private collection.

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