ELEVEN 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN EMPIRE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS.19th Century. Lot of eleven dining chairs, consisting of two arm chairs, each measuring 37" high x 20 1/2" wide x 23" deep. With nine side chairs of two different types, two which have the same backrests as the arm chairs, and measure 33 3/8" high x 18 3/8" wide x 19" deep. With seven side chairs which have a carved scroll to the top rail of the back rests, and measure 33 7/8" high x 18 1/2" wide x 20" deep. All are upholstered identically in green brocade fabric. (11 total).
Originally in the home of George Washington Doane, the second Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, in Burlington, NJ. His home Riverside was located on the bank of the Delaware River. The original home no longer exists, but the first all-girls academic boarding school for girls which he founded next door does, and is now called the Doane Academy. The chairs were inherited by his son, William Croswell Doane, the first Episcopal Bishop of Albany, NY.
The dining chairs were later in the historic Murdock House on New Lebanon, New York, built by the Revolutionary War Colonel Jonathan Murdock in 1800. They passed onto a home on the Potamac River in Heathsville, VA , to North Carolina and then to a home in Washington, DC. Estimate $600-700
Some of the chairs in need of repair to veneer. One of the arm chairs with and old repair to the top rail. One of the sidechairs which do not match the arm chairs, with a temporary repair to backrest. The arm chairs are on casters. The balance of the chairs are not. Minor wear to all associated with age and use. The fabric upholstery is very clean.
