Lot Essay
A rare survival of New York Queen Anne craftsmanship, the chairs offered here and those offered as lots 438 and 439 are identical in form to only three other chairs recorded, all of which are in public collections. These include a single example in the collection of Winterthur Museum, illustrated and discussed in Joseph Downs, American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), no. 108; two chairs in the collection of the Monmouth Country Historical Association, illustrated in Charles T. Lyle and Philip D. Zimmerman, "Furniture of the Monmouth County Historical Association," Antiques (January 1980), fig. 10, p. 192.