The Letitia Thompson Rare Set of Four Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1770
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January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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The Letitia Thompson Rare Set of Four Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chairs
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1770
Together with a heavily restored chair probably from the same set. Three of the five chairs with period slip seats, the remaining two with modern slip seats.
Height 38 in.
Four chairs: Christie's, New York, January 22, 1993, lots 560 and 561.
Other chair: Lester & Robert Slatoff, Princeton, New Jersey.
These four chairs are part of a remarkable larger set of twelve side chairs and two arm chairs made for Letitia Thompson (b. 1753), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for her wedding to Minor Cannon. Their son, Newton Cannon, became Governor of Tennessee. Two side chairs from the set are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc. nos. 1968-70-2, 4). An armchair from this set is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (see Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (New York: MacMillian, 1952), no. 45).
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