Agrees, proportion is way off & additionally, one side looks straight or squared off so something happened.
I don't think period QA, more likely 19th century.
Alrighty then, it was NA, Navajo. I was close with my first guess, bird! lol
That Charles ll chair is called a "wainscot" chair in the USA. There are aprox 30 something 17th century american wainscot chairs known to exist &...
Yep, is and often called a "sideboard" as well.
They never have been, their primary function is marketing, finding a buyer. This is the way it is at all auction houses, they simply don't have...
LOL, well you see, there's this auction and maybe i can make some big bucks selling a part of the american wild west.......... Thankfully,...
Bots are happening these days, no getting around it. I remember once upon a time i fought back against cell phones, to intrusive on my work day i...
Very little these days i am afraid, I'll guess $100, less if at auction
LOL, yeah, i hear you but, these are "working" antiques and by that i mean they function/work pretty much the same today as they did the day they...
These chairs were built by joiners with riven oak back in the day when only men or royalty sat in chairs, women & children sat on stools. There...
Why not?
Yeah, I did too when i redid my kitchen a few years ago. Interesting watching robots figure out and work together in assembly of that chair. AI or...
I think you did very well, looks good and functional too.
Yeah, I hear you, i was saying the same thing when they were $30,000. lol Those Enfield stands are an iconic Shaker form, the proportions are...
LOL, The mystery is, what in the hell was he saying!?
Interesting reading @Bakersgma link, it seems the metal industrial look has cooled off a bit.
Yeah, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy out of my field of knowledge/interest but the industrial look is hot or was (steampunk), dunno about these days though.
True that! I have always lusted for a Shaker Enfield NH work stand, when i first became aware of them they were selling in the 30-40k range. One...
Well yeah, Plain being the key word there. There is an understated elegance to Shaker, they took functionality & plain to a new art form although...
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