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A SET OF SIX CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDECHAIRS

NEW YORK, 1765-1790

細節

A SET OF SIX CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDECHAIRS
new york, 1765-1790
Each with shaped crestrail above a pierced Gothic splat and trapezoidal slipseat, on Marlboro legs joined by H-stretchers
38in. high (6)

來源

Louis G. Meyers, New York, 1930

展覽

Williamsburg, Virginia, Governor's Palace, secretary's office, 1936-1980
Williamsburg, Virginia, George Wythe House, Parlor, 1984-1994

拍品專文

The splat design for these chairs is based on Plate XII of Thomas Chippendale's 1762 edition of Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director. This pattern was popular in New York, made both with cabriole legs and ball and claw feet (see Morrison H. Hecksher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985)p. 72, fig. 30) as well as with straight legs (see Hecksher, pp. 72-74 figs. 30 and 31). A set of six chairs with C-scroll corner brackets descended in the Floyd family of Setauket now in the collection of the Society for Preservation of Long Island Antiquities are most closely related to this group, (see Dean F. Failey, Long Island is My Nation (Setauket, New York, 1976) pp. 86-87, fig. 104).