Couch

Artist / Maker

Unknown maker

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

c. 1823

Dimensions

34-1/2 × 90 × 24-3/8 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany

Secondary woods: white pine, tulip poplar

Surface treatments: gilded brass, replacement upholstery

Labels / Inscriptions

Label: Formerly attached to the front rail, now attached to the underside of the seat: “This sofa came from the William Brown family / at Market and Chestnut Sts was in the / parlor. When the house was dismantled / Elizabeth Norris Brown took it to Fanny / Brown Coleman.”

Provenance

William Brown (1800–1842) and Deborah Norris Brown (1800–1864), Philadelphia; To their daughter Elizabeth Norris Brown (1824–1912); To her niece Fanny Brown Coleman (1861–1935), daughter of Deborah (Dollie) Norris Brown Coleman (1832–1904) and George Dawson Coleman (1825–1878), Lebanon, PA. Sale, Briggs Auction House, Garnet Valley, PA, 2017; With Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2021.

Publications / Exhibition History

Exhibited: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2018-19.

Feld, Elizabeth and Stuart P. Feld. Augmenting the Canon: Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2018. pp. 18-19, no. 1, illus. in color.