Pair of Yellow Rounded Tablet-top Paint-decorated Chairs

Pair of Yellow Rounded Tablet-top Paint-decorated Chairs, possibly Jonathan Whitney, Templeton, Massachusetts, 1828-35, shaped crests centering fruit, above stiles and turned spindles, brown-painted seats, and bamboo-turned legs, ht. 34 3/4, seat ht. 18 in.

Literature: For a discussion of Jonathan Whitney's chairs, see Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs, pp. 495-97 and fig. 7-65.