November 21, 2025: Fall Premier Americana: Day Two Featuring The Benny Long Collection
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SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA PAINT-DECORATED SPLIT-BOTTOM SIDE CHAIRS, SET OF FOUR, white oak and poplar, each featuring a shaped crest rail above four cut-out arrow-like spindles set in a plain lower rail, supported on bent rear posts topped with unusual, delicate ball-top finials, and original white-oak splint double-weave seat, raised on turned front legs terminating in ball feet and plain rear legs, joined by a box stretcher having two rungs on each side. Each retains an outstanding original dry Spanish-brown painted surface with a gold-powder stencil-decorated crest rail featuring leafy sprays flanking a central sawtooth rosette, as well as additional free-hand turquoise blue and yellow decoration, including stencil highlights, banding, and pinstriping. New Market, Shenandoah Co., VA. Circa 1870. 33 3/4" HOA, 16 1/2" H seat, 16 1/2" x 15" seat.
Catalogue Note: The present set of chairs is from an important group that displays distinctive provincial design elements, including decorations. A total of ten examples have been recorded, including another set of four sold through these galleries on 11/20/2021, lot 3239, a walnut oversized side chair, and an armed rocking chair. The latter two examples and the present set all have a recovery history in the New Market area. This group is part of ongoing research on the artisans of New Market being performed by Jeffrey S. Evans.
Outstanding original condition, two with a shallow loss to a rear post above the seat, one with moderate wear to the paint on the front legs, otherwise only light wear and some extremely minor breaks to the seats.
From the collection of Benny Long, New Market, VA.
Acquired at a New Market, VA estate auction.
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