American Furniture & Decorative Arts

458. Pair of Portrait Miniatures of a Young Couple, America, c. 1825,
     watercolor on card heightened with gum arabic, bust-length profile
     oval portraits, 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in., in matching period molded mahogany
     frames with gilt-brass liners, (toning, minor foxing, craquelure to gum
     arabic).
     $300-500

459.

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Young Man Seated on a Chair, c. 1835. Unsigned.

Watercolor on card, 9 1/4 x 7 in., in a period mahogany veneer frame.

Condition: Foxing, toning.

$250-350

460.

Framed Family Record with Silhouettes and Framed Silhouette

of a Man, early 19th century, the printed family record for Samuel

W. Lynn (b. December 20, 1799) and Sarah Coe (b. April 9, 1805) of

Durham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, the tablet fitted with their bust-

length hollow-cut silhouettes with graphite details, separated by a green

ribbon, in a mahogany veneer frame, (toning, acid burn), overall 12 1/2

x 10 3/4; together with a hollow-cut silhouette portrait of a gentleman

with graphite details, in a period mitered molded wood frame, the

backboard inscribed “Profi[le] Robert Middle 1820,” (toning), 4 x 3 1/4

in.

Literature: A similar family record is pictured in Silhouettes in America,

1790-1840: A Collector’s Guide, by Blume J. Rifken, Paradigm Press,

Burlington, Vermont, pp. 90-91. The author states they “have seen

only four of these and all appeared to have been done by the same

silhouette artist...in each case a green ribbon separates the individual

profiles.”

$800-1,200

461.

Pair of Silhouettes of a Lady and Gentleman, attributed to William

Chamberlain (b. circa 1790), New Hampshire, hollow-cut bust-length

portraits with ink embellishments, (toning), 4 x 3 1/4 in., in pressed

brass frames.

$400-600

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