Property from a Private Nantucket Collection
A Pair of Queen Anne Shell-Carved Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1760
Auction Closed
January 23, 08:30 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
figured walnut
one chair marked VI, the other marked X. One period white pine slip seat marked I; the other bears original slip seat marked X.
height 40 ½ in.
102.9 cm
Philip Bradley Antiques, Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
A very similar pair of chairs is in the collection of The American Museum in Bath, England. Another nearly identical chair is in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at Yale University (acc. no. 1930.2411a-b) and is illustrated in Patricia E. Kane, 300 Years of American Seating Furniture: Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and other collections at Yale University, (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), p. 90, pl. 70.
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