BOSTON, 1725-1745

Details

A QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT SLIPPER CHAIR
BOSTON, 1725-1745
with its original pine slip-seat frame
38 in. high

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York
Acquired from above, February 1966

Literature

Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 1, p. 58, pl. 184.
The Sack Archive at The Yale University Art Gallery.
Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 389.

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Lot Essay

A maple side chair with a virtually identical carved crest, similar splat, cabriole legs and stretchers but stylistically later skirt is attributed to Boston, 1725-1760 (Robert F. Trent, Erik Gronning and Alan Anderson, "The Gaines Attributions and Baroque Seating in Northeastern New England," American Furniture 2010, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee, 2010), fig. 68). A single caned side chair and a pair of side chairs, all with turned legs, display closely related crest designs (Trent, Gronning and Anderson, fig. 67; Wallace Nutting, Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (Framingham, Mass., 1921), p. 249).

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