A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY EASY CHAIR FRAME

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY EASY CHAIR FRAME
PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780

With a serpentine crestrail over outset and serpentine sides and outscrolling arm rests above downswept arm supports and a trapezoidal seat frame, on cabriole legs headed by scrolling foliage on ball-and-claw feet (the back legs pieced)--49in. high
Literature
Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York, 1952), fig. 86.