Lot 439
439
A QUEEN ANNE CHERRYWOOD SIDE CHAIR

NEW YORK CITY, 1740-1760

Details
A QUEEN ANNE CHERRYWOOD SIDE CHAIR
New York City, 1740-1760
The yoked crest above a solid inverted-baluster and crooked-back splat flanked by conforming rounded stiles over a trapezoidal slip-seat, on cabriole legs with pointed slipper feet
40in. high
Provenance
Descended in the Truax Family of New Jersey
Louis Richmond, Freehold, New Jersey
Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Middletown, New Jersey
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, 10 May 1945, lot 153
Private Collection, St. Louis, Missouri
Exhibited
Trenton, New Jersey, Trent House

Lot Essay

This chair bears its original sweetgum slip-seat frame, which bears the inscription, "Seat from chair from Richmond March 1939" and a label with "Salter" and "sweetgum," a reference to Gordon Salter who performed wood microanalysis at Winterthur Museum. Also, the inside of the rear seat rail is twice branded, "Property of Mrs. J. A. Haskell."