PROPERTY SOLD WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART TO BENEFIT ACQUISITION FUNDS

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD SIDE CHAIR

PHILADELPHIA, 1770-1790

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD SIDE CHAIR
PHILADELPHIA, 1770-1790
seat rail and original slip seat frame marked II
39½ in. high

来源

Charles C. Willis, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 1955

出版

Louis C. Madeira and Henry P. McIlhenny, "The New Arts Wing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art," The Magazine Antiques (March 1959), p. 261.

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拍品专文

With an old surface, this chair is an excellent example of the Philadelphia tassel-back design. Its use of cherrywood indicates that it was a less expensive option to those made of an imported mahogany, as seen in the previous lot. For related chairs, see Joseph K. Kindig III, The Philadelphia Chair: 1685-1785 (New York, 1973), fig. 44; Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art II Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York, 1985), pp. 95-96, cat. 50; Christie's, New York, The Collection of Howard and May Joynt, 19-20 January 1990, lot 496.