PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1760

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIR
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1760
chair frame marked X with a yellow pine slip-seat frame from the original set marked I; slip-seat frame retains its original leather upholstery
39 in. high

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 1998, lot 1702
James and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine and Villanova, Pennsylvania
Acquired from above, February 1998

Literature

Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 985.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Retaining its original leather-upholstered slip-seat, this side chair is a rare survival of mid-eighteenth century Philadelphia seating furniture. The splat design, with looped scrolls and an inverted-heart void, is also seen on contemporaneous chairs from New England and New York. For a related Philadelphia example at Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 60.1074), see Charles F. Hummel, American Chippendale Furniture (Winterthur, 1976), pp. 48-49, fig. 40.

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