PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780

Details

THE PARRISH FAMILY CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780
the slip seat marked III
39½ in. high

Provenance

Joseph K. Kindig III, York, Pennsylvania, 1978
John S. Walton, Inc., New York
E.J. Nusrala, St. Louis, Missouri
Walton Antiques, Inc., Jewett City, Connecticut
Dietrich American Foundation, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
Leigh Keno American Antiques, New York, 2009

Literature

Joseph K. Kindig III, The Philadelphia Chair: 1685-1785 (York, Pennsylvania, 1978), fig. 45.
John S. Walton, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (April 1968), p. 408.

Exhibited

York, Pennsylvania, The Historical Society of York County, The Philadelphia Chair: 1685-1785, 28 May-23 September 1978.

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Lot Essay

For related examples see Charles F. Hummel, A Winterthur Guide to American Chippendale Furniture: Middle Atlantic and Southern Colonies (New York, 1976), p. 71, fig. 64 and (one from a pair) Joseph Kindig, Jr. Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (February 1943), inside front cover.

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