Rare Queen Anne Brown-Painted Maple Slat-Back Side Chair, possibly by Solomon Fussell (c. 1704-1762) or William Savery (1721-1787), probably Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1765

Six-slat side chairs with faceted cabriole legs are one of the rarest forms of slat back chairs made in Pennsylvania.  The Chester County Historical Society has two nearly identical chairs one which is illustrated in Margaret Bleeker Blades, Two Hundred Years of Chairs and Chairmaking: An Exhibition of Chairs from the Chester County Historical Society, (West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 1987), pp. 14-5, 26, fig. 11, cat. 22.  Recently these chairs production have been associated to Philadelphia (see Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, American Furniture 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), p. 63, fig. 33).