THREE PIECE 19TH CENTURY PARLOR SUITE IN THE VICTORIAN TASTE,19th Century. Consisting of three pieces, a sofa with nicely carved walnut frame, which measures 40 7/8" high x 67 5/8" wide x 35" deep. With two open arm chairs on casters, 39 1/4" high x 23 5/8" wide x 26" deep. All upholstered in pale orange fabric. (3 total).
Originally purchased in Paris for Edward N. Perkins estate at Pine Bank on Jamaica Pond in Boston. Bishop George W. Doane presided over Perkins' marriage to Mary Spring in 1846 in Trinity Church, Boston. The furniture was given to Eliza Green Doane Gardiner upon her death. She was the daugher of Bishop William C. Doane. She later married the explorer and surveyor of the American West, James Terry Gardiner and they took up residence in NYC. James Terry Gardiner and Bishop Doane would go on to establish Northeast Harbor in Maine, as a summer resort where the family would spend three months of every year.
The suite was 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 $500-600
Upholstery is clean to all. The frames are very good.
