A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

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A CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
NEW YORK, 1760-1780

With shaped crestrail centering foliage over a pierced and foliate-carved splat flanked by stop-fluted stiles above a padded trapezoidal seat over foliate-carved cabriole legs on ball-and-claw feet, the back feet shaped--38¾in. high

Lot Essay

A virtually identical chair, possibly from the same set, is in the Winterthur Collection and is illustrated in Joseph Downs,American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), fig. 147. See also an armchair at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with virtually identical splat and knees illustrated in Morrison H. Hecksher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985, pp. 75-77). Purchased from Christie's, New York, October 19, 1991, lot 203