PROPERTY DEACCESSIONED FROM STRATFORD HALL PLANTATION, LOTS 602-607 Stratford is embarking on a new interpretation of the historic Great House and its place in the lives of four generations of Lees who lived there. "To depict the various periods of Lee family occupation at Stratford Hall Plantation as accurately as current scholarship, research, technology and perservation standards will allow," is the historic furnishings objective of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, the guardian and Steward of Stratford for almost 75 years.

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT COMPASS-SEAT SIDE CHAIR

PHILADELPHIA, 1740-1755

Details

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT COMPASS-SEAT SIDE CHAIR
Philadelphia, 1740-1755
Chair frame marked II; walnut and yellow-pine slip-seat probably from original set marked III. One rear leg pieced approximately 8 in. The surface recently restored by Lackman Restoration, Inc.
41 in. high

Provenance

Caroline Clendenin Ryan Foulke

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Lot Essay

With its rounded stiles, compass seat and expertly rendered shells, this side chair epitomizes the elegance and virtuosity of Philadelphia cabinetmakers working in the Queen Anne style. At the same time, the chair is a masterful expression of regional preferences--from the carved shells and trifid feet to the horizontal joinery of the seat and seat rails with through tenons.

Exhibiting identical designs, two other surviving chairs were possibly part of the original set. See Sotheby's New York, October 19, 1996, lot 316 and The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, vol. II, October 28-29, 2004, lot 341.

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