Very Fine and Rare Queen Anne Carved Walnut Compass-Seat Side Chair, Boston, Massachusetts, Circa 1745

retains a rich historic possibly original surface; the seat rail and slip seat marked VII. 

Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno, "The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style," American Furniture 1998, ed. Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 1998), p. 27, fig. 44.

Width: 20 3/4 inches Depth: 18 inches
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For related chairs see John Walton advertisement, The Magazine Antiques, February 1961, p. 133, Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House loan exhibition of Rhode Island furniture, including some notable portraits, Chinese export porcelain & other items (Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), p. 6, fig 6, John T. Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale, (New York: Knopf, 1972), fig. 158 and Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Porcelain, Prints and Carpets, January 21, 2012, sale 8823, lot 229.