Very Rare William and Mary Brown-Painted Maple Slat-Back Side Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1735

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The applied skirt profile relates this slat-back side chair to a pair of chairs once in the collection of H.L. Chalfant (see Jack L. Lindsey, Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 168-1758, (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999), p. 112, no. 119).  The pair were sold at Pook and Pook, Inc., Dowingtown, Pennsylvania, Period Furniture and Accessories, September 21, 2002, lot 200.