Lot Essay
John Nutt advertised in the South Carolina Gazette on August 2, 1770, "To Be Sold for Ready Money, At the Very Lowest prices... a Parcel of Well Manufactured Mahogany Furniture, consisting of Chairs of different patterns, Tea Tables, Half Chest of Drawers..." (Bjerkoe, The Cabinetmakers of America (New York, 1957), p. 164). Although E. Milby Burton suggests that Nutt's advertisement was intended as a notice of his departure from South Carolina, the family history of this chair suggests he may, in fact, have remained in Charleston after 1770.