The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Pfaffenroth: American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts
Very Fine and Rare Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chair, possibly by Benjamin Randolph (1737-1791) or Thomas Tufft (17401780) with James Gillingham (1736-1781), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1770
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January 19, 09:11 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Very Fine and Rare Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chair
possibly by Benjamin Randolph (1737-1791) or Thomas Tufft (17401780) with James Gillingham (1736-1781)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Circa 1770
Chair seat frame marked IV with period slip seat frame marked III. The back interior seat rail indistinctly marked "MORRO?"
Height 37 3/4 in.
A chair from the same set was sold at Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, October 9, 1997, sale 7025, lot 483. Another at American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan, January 8-10, 1931, sale 3878, lot 375 and is now in the collection of the St. Louis Art Museum (acc. no. 55.1932) (see Bulletin, St. Louis Art Museum, New Series, vol. 15, no. 3, American Furniture, (SUMMER 1980), p. 10). Another chair from the same set is illustrated in Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. 1950), p. 36.