Lot Essay
See catalogue note to the previous lot.
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PROPERTY FROM THE ROSEBROOK COLLECTION
A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750
Details
A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750
en suite with the preceding lot; the first chair marked VI with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VI; the second chair marked VIII with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VIII
39 1/2 in. high
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750
en suite with the preceding lot; the first chair marked VI with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VI; the second chair marked VIII with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VIII
39 1/2 in. high
Provenance
Chair VI:
Possibly Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 1952
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 1991, lot 325
Chair VIII:
Possible line of descent:
Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
John Rozet (1794-1870), Philadelphia, son
Mary Ann Lanning Rozet (1824-1885), daughter
Dr. John Livingston Ludlow (1819-1888), husband
George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944), Philadelphia and “Wootton,” Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877-1959), nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle, Jr. (1917-2002), son
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 21 June 1989, lot 409
Possibly Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 1952
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 1991, lot 325
Chair VIII:
Possible line of descent:
Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
John Rozet (1794-1870), Philadelphia, son
Mary Ann Lanning Rozet (1824-1885), daughter
Dr. John Livingston Ludlow (1819-1888), husband
George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944), Philadelphia and “Wootton,” Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877-1959), nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle, Jr. (1917-2002), son
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 21 June 1989, lot 409
Literature
Johanna McBrien, "A Sense of Place," Antiques and Fine Art (Winter/Spring 2009), pp. 205, 209.
Chair VI:
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (November 1952), inside front cover.
Joseph Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair, 1685-1785 (York, 1978), no. 39.
Chair VI:
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (November 1952), inside front cover.
Joseph Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair, 1685-1785 (York, 1978), no. 39.
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