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Bush, Inc.,\" Antiques 140, no. 4 (November 1991): 648."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"According to an auction catalog for Christie?ÇÖs, New York (1991), by repute, this sofa descended from the Holmes family of West Peabody and Newtonville, MA to John Clark, of Waldorf, MD, and it may have descended from the family of Clark?ÇÖs great-great-grandmother, beginning with Abiel Holmes (1763-1837) and his wife, Sarah Wendell, to their son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), and then to their daughter, Oliver?ÇÖs sister, Ann Susan Holmes (1802-1877) and her husband, Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875), then to their son, William Phineas Upham (1836-1905) (and possibly, prior to William, to his older brother, Charles Wentworth Upham, who died early at 29), and then to William?ÇÖs daughter with Cynthia Bailey Upham, Mary Wendell Clark Upham (1881-1932) and her husband Austin Hobart Clark (1880-1954), born in Wellesley, MA and died in Washington, D.C. As of 1972, it was owned by Col. M.S. Higgins of Alexandria, Virginia as of 1972, put up for auction by Christie?ÇÖs New York in 1983, lot 507, and advertised for sale by G.K.S. Bush, Inc. in 1991."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"DAPC numbers 1972-0295 and 1972-0296 were erroneously assigned to this piece."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 38 in. (96.5 cm), Width 59 in. (149.9 cm), Depth 23 in. (58.4 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Federal-style sofa made of mahogany and birch, unupholstered.  Visible everywhere on the frame are upholstery tack holes and tool markings. The top back rail is slightly curved, attached to the rail are sloped, molded arm rests with ring- and spool-turned, gadrooned, vase-shaped supports attached to plinths bracing the front seat rail. Attached to the arm rests, behind the arm supports, are reeded posts and an undecorated rail to reinforce the frame. Three wide, vertical slats and two thin posts constitute the back frame of the sofa along with vertical slats nailed to each slat and post parallel to the back rail. To support the seat are three rails curved downward. Four of the eight legs are rabbeted into the front and back rails; the other four legs connect the side, front, and back rails via butt joinery and corner plinths. The four front legs have reel and ring-and-spool turnings with gadrooned shafts. The four back legs are stump. All eight legs are fixed with castors."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"1/19/2019"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"stenciled on inside, front and center: [John Parker, Jr.].  Stenciled on inside front leg end, near block: [John Parker, Jr.].  Stenciled on central front-to-rear brace: [John Parker, Jr.]."},{"label":"Materials","value":"Mahogany; Birch"},{"label":"Style","value":["Federal"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Date range based on approximate date of 1800 provided by G.K.S. Bush, Inc. 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