Lot 100
  • 100

A Rare Chippendale Carved Mahogany Slipper Armchair, Goddard-Townsend School, Newport, Rhode Island circa 1770

Estimate
15,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • height 37 3/4 in.
  • 95.9 cm

Provenance

John S. Walton, Inc., New York

Literature

John Brown House Loan Exhibition, Rhode Island Historical Society (Providence, RI:  Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), no. 23, pp.24-5

The Magazine Antiques, October 1966, in an advertisement for John S. Walton, Inc., p. 400

Condition

secondary wood is maple; iron L-brackets attached to front legs to stabilize; chipped proper right rear leg at base of foot; proper left front legs rear talon missing; proper right rear stile with carpenters mistake to an added mortise; proper left cornered ear on crest rail missing; proper right front leg cracked
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