Fine Pair of Chippendale Carved Walnut Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1755

St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Trenton;
Robert Pearson, Pennington, New Jersey.

H&R Sandor advertisement, University Hospital 1974 Antique Show catalogue, p. 106.

Four other chairs from the set are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc. no. 1940-16-36 thru 1940-16-39) and are illustrated in Early Furniture made in New Jersey 1690-1870, (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1958), no. 16. The set of four chairs are numbered I, II, IIII and VI on the back rail and have a plaque inscribed Harris, Florence.