824. An American Renaissance Carved Rosewood Parlor Suite, mid-19th c., probably retailed by Henry N. Siebrecht, New Orleans, comprising sofa, two armchairs and six side chairs; each with arched crest rail centering flowers, leaves and scrolling bands and terminating in volutes, padded back, bowfront seat rail suspending shaped apron, trumpet-form tapering legs surmounted by incised blocks, the sofa and armchairs with padded arms and incised shaped arm supports, each bearing painted inscription “H.N. Seibricht” (sic). $7000/10000 Note: Henry N. Siebrecht, a retailer active in New Orleans from 1834 to 1890, sold a broad range of household furnishings imported primarily from Europe. He immigrated to the United States from Hesse-Cassel, Germany, and in 1826 established an upholstery shop in New Orleans. Siebrecht gradually expanded the scope of his business to include the sale of furniture, curtain fabrics and trims, window cornices, wallpapers, and decorative accessories. Many of the furnishings offered in his store at 49 Royal Street were obtained from French and other European sources; however, surviving examples of furniture known to have been purchased from Siebrecht indicate that some of the furniture was supplied by furniture manufacturers in the northeastern United States. The parlor suite offered here is part of a growing body of documented furniture from the warerooms of Henry N. Siebrecht. Furniture associated with Siebrecht’s retail establishment on the basis of surviving bills of sale or painted inscriptions includes Gothic Revival hall furniture and Rococo Revival parlor furniture supplied about 1858 to Frederick Stanton for Stanton Hall in Natchez, Mississippi; a Rococo Revival rosewood dining table purchased in 1859 by Alphonse Miltenberger for his townhouse in the French Quarter, New Orleans, also a Renaissance Revival walnut bookcase sold at New Orleans Auction Galleries on May 20, 2012. A Renaissance Revival carved rosewood parlor suite that is virtually identical to the offered lot in both form and decoration sold at South Bay Auctions in East Moriches, New York, on January 26, 2008. The suite formerly belonged to the Townsend Society of Oyster Bay, New York. References: Dubrow, Eileen & Richard. American Furniture of the 19th Century, 1840-1880, pp. 51-52; Holden, Jack D., H. Parrott Bacot et al. Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835, p. 114. Busch, Jason T., Christopher Monkhouse et al. Currents of Change: Art and Life along the Mississippi River, 1850-1861, pp. 97-98.
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