“Job B. Coffin”

A very fine New York State continuous arm Windsor.
Signed under the seat “Job B. Coffin”.
Coffin is listed in Santore, The Windsor Style in America, vol. II, p. 248, as having worked in Fishkill, NY , c. 1780. He is buried in Hudson, NY. 
In old black paint over original green; in excellent condition.
36 3/4” OH, 18” SH.

SOLD.

Folk Art in Furniture

An imaginative cherry Connecticut Queen Anne highboy, with square carved Spanish feet,  knees carved with hearts, carved shells and rosettes on the body, fluted and canted quarter columns, and original finials
Woodbury/Southbury area, CT, c. 1760.
83” h., x 35 1/4” w. (upper case), 38 1/4” w. (lower case).    

SOLD.

 

William & Mary Ballfoot Blanket Chest

A lovely William and Mary one drawer blanket chest with unusually well laid out double arch molding design and especially elegant turned ball feet. Chest is one of a group with similarly distinctive ball feet.
New England, early 18th c.
39” w. x 35 ½” h. x 17 ¾” d.
Excellent condition, in untouched red painted surface with evidence of slightly later faint yellow decoration. Escutcheons original, two brasses on drawer replaced.

SOLD.