A SET OF TEN CLASSICAL AND FIGURED MAPLE DINING CHAIRS

NEW YORK, 1810-1820

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A SET OF TEN CLASSICAL AND FIGURED MAPLE DINING CHAIRS
NEW YORK, 1810-1820
With curved toprails, above horizontal splats and reeded uprights with reeded frontrails and caned seats on sabre legs
32½ in. (82.5 cm) high (10)

拍品專文

The horizontal splat, with an oval center and acanthus supports, is typically associated with the work of Duncan Phyfe and was published by Charles Over Cornelius, then assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in his Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe (New York, 1922), plate VI, no. 9 (fig. 1); a related chair is illustrated in fig. 2.

It is rare for groups of chairs to survive in such multiples. This set aptly demonstrates one interpretation of the Classical aesthetic by New York chairmakers.