Fine Art and Antiques
Sun, Sep 22, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 20
Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company; An Aesthetic Movement Carved Teak Armchair, c.1880's
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Starting Bid
Bid Increments
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| $0 | $10 |
| $200 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $30,000 | $2,500 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
Armchair with elaborate carved features and open work, with folate trailing vine motif along virtually all surfaces, intricately carved top rail crest (with old repair) and center finial, with janus mask support bust finials over the ears, finely carved back posts, columnar supports and stretchers; long carved arms terminating in exceptionally well carved lion-headed handholds with open mouths, the underside of each impressed N19; the lower portion of the chair braced by four stretchers, each carved on three sides with the undersides bearing the same N19 impression as the undersides of the arms, above elephant feet, brass caster swivels and rubber casters, each marked 20. The chair was reupholstered some time after 1967.
Height 46", overall depth 33", seat depth and width 24 1/2", seat height 17".
Designed by Lockwood de Forest in December 1881, and made by his Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company in India, likely between 1882 and 1886. For similar examples see the two armchairs in the Bryn Mawr College collection, originally owned by Mary Garrett of Baltimore (Deanery.360,Deanery.361), exhibited in 2020's All Over Design: Lockwood de Forest between Ahmedabad and Bryn Mawr, and featured in that catalog; also illustrated and analyzed in Roberta A. Mayer's Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India (University of Delaware Press, 2008) pp.144-147. Other known similar examples were photographed in the de Forest showroom on 17th Street and in the home of Robert de Forest.
For additional information, analysis and illustrated notes, see www.peterboroughauctions.us/armchair
Condition
Full condition report is currently being prepared, and will be available this weekend. Additional photographs available upon request.
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Acquired by our consignor's grandfather, of Troy, NH and later Jaffrey, NH in the 1950's or early 1960's along with the hexagonal table (lot 23) and a settee of the same set, which is no longer present. Family photographic records show these pieces in everyday usage in this family home, beginning in the early 1960's.
It is believed by the family that these pieces were acquired locally, either as gifts or purchases. We believe it's possible that they came from the de Forest family, as Alfred de Forest, Lockwood de Forest's son and notable MIT engineer, and his wife Izette Taber de Forest, notable psychoanalyst, owned a farm in the adjacent town, Marlborough, NH, from the late 1930's until Izette's passing in 1965.
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