Very Fine Chippendale Mahogany Easy Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1770
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January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Fine Chippendale Mahogany Easy Chair
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1770
Height 45 in.
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Berksveldt Farm, The Collection of El Roy P. and Helene Master, June 19, 2009, lot 241.
Maine Antiques Digest, September 2009, p. 36C.
The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book lists Easy chair frame. Marlborough feet, bases, and brackets . In mahogany - £2-10-0. (see Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, The 1772 Philadelphia Furniture Price Book: A Facsimile, (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005). p. 9. A related example is in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan (see Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles, (Atglen, PA: Sch🐓iffer Publishing Ltd, 1962), no. 252).
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