Lot 98
  • 98

A Fine and Rare Queen Anne Carved Walnut Open Armchair with Flat Stretchers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1750

Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • height 40 1/4 in.
  • 102.2 cm
the chair marked I.

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York

Condition

secondary wood is yellow pine; glue blocks replaced with triangular screwed wooded supports; proper left arm support cracked at junction of seat rail; 1 1/4 by 3/4 inch patch to proper right arm at junction of stile; proper left stile cracked and re-glued at junction of arm; proper left arm with a 3/4 by 3/4 inch patch at junction of stile; refinished; feet with loss to height.
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