Very Rare Queen Anne Brown-Painted Maple Slat-Back Armchair, possibly by Solomon Fussell (c. 1704-1762) or William Savery (1721-1787), probably Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1760

Joe Kindig, Jr. and Son, York, Pennsylvania;
Christie’s, New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, June 23, 1993, sale 7710, lot 131;
H.L. Chalfant, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Joe Kindig, Jr. and Son advertisement, Magazine Antiques, vol. 53, no. 2, February 1948, inside front cover;
Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary styles, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), n. 2, p. 50.

Solomon Fussell and/or William Savery are likely responsible for making this chair.  Fussell, born in Yorkshire, immigrated to Philadelphia by 1725. He was likely trained by a German chairmaker due to the Germanic features present in his chairs.  William Savery apprenticed with Fussell and continued to produce chairs in a similar style.  For additional information on Solomon Fussell and William Savery see Benno Forman, “Delaware Valley 'Crookt Foot' and Slat-Back Chairs,” Winterthur Portfolio 15, Spring 1980, pp. 41-64, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary styles, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007), p. 48-50, no. 17, and Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, American Furniture 1650-1840: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), p. 63, no. 25.