A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDECHAIR

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A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDECHAIR
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, 1740-1750

With serpentine crest above a vertically pierced earred vase-shaped splat flanked by tapering stiles over a balloon-shaped slip seat, on cabriole legs with pad feet joined by a block and baluster-turned H-stretcher, the seat rail marked XVI--38½in. high

Lot Essay

This sidechair relates to a number of sidechairs attributed to Thomas Davenport (1681-1745) of Newport. The small carved ears on the splat are characteristic of Davenport and appear on a number of sidechairs attributed to his shop. See The Magazine Antiques vol. CXXI, no. 5 (May, 1982), p. 1163, fig. 10. Sidechairs which are identical in all respects except without ears are more common. See Carpenter, The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1820, (Newport, 1954), p. 44, plate 18.