NEW YORK, 1760-1780

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY CORNER CHAIR
NEW YORK, 1760-1780
32 in. high

Provenance

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Britton, Houston, Texas
Christie’s, New York, 16 January 1999, lot 613

Special notice

Please note this lot will be moved to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn) at 5pm on the last day of the sale. Lots may not be collected during the day of their move to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services. Please consult the Lot Collection Notice for collection information. This sheet is available from the Bidder Registration staff, Purchaser Payments or the Packing Desk and will be sent with your invoice.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

The chair offered here is one of only a few Chippendale corner chairs to survive from New York. With a curvilinear seat frame and four ball-and-claw feet, the chair exhibits a high degree of workmanship and, compared to a straight seat frame and a single frontal ball-and-claw foot, these features were additional costs to the buyer. Similar turned supports, knee carving and ball-and-claw feet are seen on a group of three corner "commode" chairs, one of which was owned by Sir William Johnson, Johnstown, New York and another of which descended in the Stevenson family of Albany (see Patricia Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture (New Haven, 1976), pp. 142-143, cat. 120; "Shop Talk," Antiques (October 1954), p. 248; Sotheby's, New York, 19-21 January 1996, lot 1526).

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