Lot Essay
Two related armchairs, now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are illustrated in Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia, 1982), p. 37.
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A QUEEN ANNE LADDER-BACK SIDECHAIR, Delaware Valley, 18th century, with arched slightly bowed crest above three similarly shaped graduated slats flanked by cylindrical stiles with turned finials over a trapezoidal rush seat, on turned legs joined by stretchers, the front stretcher with bold ball turnings and carrot terminals, on compressed ball feet--42¼in. high