A Chippendale Mahogany 'Tassel-Back' Side Chair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1770
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April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Chippendale Mahogany 'Tassel-Back' Side Chair
circa 1770
41¼ x 24 x 23¼ in. (104.8 x 61 x 59.1 cm.)
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William K. duPont, Newark, Delaware Sotheby's, New York, Americana, January 28, 1993, sale 6392, lot 1277 Wolf Family Collection No. 1063 (acquired from the above)
This chair is identical to two others, one in the Henry Ford Museum, (see Helen Comstock, American Furniture, New York, 1962, fig. 263.), the other in the Karolik Collection at the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston (see M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth Century American Arts, Boston, 1941, p. 148, fig. 86).