19TH CENTURY WALNUT RECAMIER IN THE VICTORIAN TASTE,19th Century. Nicely carved walnut frame with vintage upholstery.On brass casters.
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 recamier was later was 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. - 38 3/4" high x 62" long x 28" deep. Estimate $400-500
Old large stain to the upholstery. Split to the frame along the top. All of the casters are present.
