LATE 19TH CENTURY

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TWO PAIRS OF DUTCH WALNUT AND MARQUETRY SIDE CHAIRS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with shaped splat, above cotton covered drop-in seat on cabriole front legs, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 53.1800

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York, formerly at Abeyton Lodge, Pocantico.
Gift from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Jr., New York, 1941.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 353, no. 396.

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Lot Essay

Mother gave us this set of chairs in 1941, shortly after we were married. For many years they had been in my family's home at Pocantico, known as Abeyton Lodge, where I grew up. They are quite different from any other chairs that we have. At present, two of them are at the house on 65th Street, and the other two are in the hall outside our bedroom at Hudson Pines.
D. R.

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