POSSIBLY THE SHOP OF THOMAS TUFFT (CIRCA 1740-1788), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1770

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THE TYSON-FITZHUGH FAMILY PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
POSSIBLY THE SHOP OF THOMAS TUFFT (CIRCA 1740-1788), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1770
with seat frames and original slip-seat frames marked VI and VIII; en suite with the preceding lot
38 ½ in. high

Provenance

The Tyson and Fitzhugh families, Maryland
Probably Henry Maynadier Fitzhugh (1815-1900) and his wife, Lucy Tyson (1833-1910), Michigan and Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Henry M. Fitzhugh (1875-1935), "Sunset Hill," Westminster, Maryland
Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York
The Marvill Collection, New York
Sold, Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshire, 15-16 August 2015, lot 508 (part)

Literature

Edgar G. Miller, Jr., American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, vol. 1 (Baltimore, 1937), pp. 151-152, no. 115 (one chair).
Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., Gallery Catalogue IX (Fall 1997), p. 12.

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Lot Essay

See note to preceding lot. At the time of their sale in 1997, these chairs were noted to have descended in the Tyson and Fitzhugh families of Maryland and illustrated in a 1901 photograph of the parlor of Henry M. Fitzhugh's Baltimore home. It is probable that the chairs were owned in the late nineteenth century by Henry Maynadier Fitzhugh (1815-1900) and Lucy (Tyson) Fitzhugh (1833-1910), who married in 1872 and then descended to their son Dr. Henry Maynadier Fitzhugh (1875-1935) as one chair was illustrated soon after the latter's death as being the property of "Dr. H.M. Fitzhugh" (see Literature above). Lucy (Tyson) Fitzhugh was the great granddaughter of the renowned surveyor Andrew Ellicott (1733-1809) and it is possible that the set originated in the Ellicott family of Ellicott Mills, Maryland.

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