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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveDec 5, 2024
Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison: includes early Southern Pottery from Edgefield, Georgia, Alabama, Lanier Meaders face jug, folk art, textiles, baskets and handmade tools; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Krafft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
wooden chair frame, two slat back, mule ear, maple and oak, made by Jason Reid, Choestoe, Union County, GA, circa 1920s, 28-1/4 x 17-1/2 x 15 in.; rocking chair, finial tipped, pegged rocking chair with cowhide seat, black paint, Macon, GA, circa mid 1800s, 36 x 22 x 28 in.; oak and maple mule ear chair frame, three slat back, circa 1880s, Rabun County, GA, 34 x 17 x 15 in; hickory chair, three arched slat back, round posts with finials, split woven hickory seat, worn paint, 19th century, Union County, GA, 34 x 19-1/2 x 15 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 130, cat. no. 304, the Jason Reid chair frame, Burrison writes, "The posts of this example were turned on Jason's great-wheel lathe, His seat rungs widen to support the sitter and show the impression of the split oak "bottom" once woven around them. About an inch has been worn off the feet from use."
Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024
- Provenance
From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Condition
Rocking chair in fine old surface, rockers are probably older editions with some distress at attachments, side chair with losses to spit seat, all with typical surface wear and distress, chair frame feet worn down an inch or so
