PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY EASY CHAIR
PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780
44 3⁄4 in. high

Provenance

Mrs. Dorothy A. Quigley, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 1970, lot 115
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 1984, lot 359
The Clifton Collection

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The sweeping curves, graceful silhouette and acanthus-carved knees of this easy chair illustrate the celebrated Rococo aesthetic of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Several other examples display a similar vocabulary and layout of ornament. These include an example hailed as a “Masterpiece” by Albert Sack in The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), p. 74; another in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Joseph Downs, American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), no. 91); and a third previously part of the Robb Collection (Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, pp. 1222-1223).

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