THE HERRESHOFF FAMILY SET OF FOUR FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO THE SHOP OF JOHN CARLILE & SONS, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1789-1803 39 ¼ in. high Provenance Possibly commissioned by John Brown (1736-1803) for the 1801 wedding of his daughter, Sarah Brown (1774-1846) and Charles Frederick Herreshoff II (1763-1819), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point, Bristol, Rhode Island Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (1809-1888), son of above , and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis (1811-1901), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point and 142 Hope Street, Bristol, Rhode Island Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938), Bristol, Rhode Island, son, by gift from above in 1884 Algernon Sydney DeWolf Herreshoff (1886-1977), son Halsey Chase Herreshoff (b. 1933), son Sotheby’s New York, 17 June 1998, lot 1197
THE HERRESHOFF FAMILY SET OF FOUR FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS ATTRIBUTED TO THE SHOP OF JOHN CARLILE & SONS, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1789-1803 39 ¼ in. high Provenance Possibly commissioned by John Brown (1736-1803) for the 1801 wedding of his daughter, Sarah Brown (1774-1846) and Charles Frederick Herreshoff II (1763-1819), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point, Bristol, Rhode Island Charles Frederick Herreshoff III (1809-1888), son of above , and his wife, Julia Ann Lewis (1811-1901), Point Pleasant Farm, Poppasquash Point and 142 Hope Street, Bristol, Rhode Island Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938), Bristol, Rhode Island, son, by gift from above in 1884 Algernon Sydney DeWolf Herreshoff (1886-1977), son Halsey Chase Herreshoff (b. 1933), son Sotheby’s New York, 17 June 1998, lot 1197
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