Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art

Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 89. Very Fine and Important Set of Six Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs Presented to Major John Clark by George Washington, possibly upholstered by Johnathan Joad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1790.

Various Owners

Very Fine and Important Set of Six Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs Presented to Major John Clark by George Washington, possibly upholstered by Johnathan Joad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1790

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January 21, 04:29 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

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Various Owners

Very Fine and Important Set of Six Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs Presented to Major John Clark by George Washington

possibly upholstered by Johnathan Joad

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

circa 1790


each with brass plaque affixed to rear seat rail inscribed PRESENTED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON TO MAJOR JOHN CLARK OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA, each chair branded on the rear seat rail, J.JOAD

Height 38 5/8 in.

Presented by George Washington to Major John Clark, York, Pennsylvania;
Major John Clark (1751-1819) m. Margaret Bittinger (1752-1833), York, Pennsylvania;
Peter Gardner (1734-1808) m. Louisa Elizabeth Erb (1735-1822), York, Pennsylvania;
John Gordon (1777-1818) m. Maria Gardner (1786-1846), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Alexander Gordon (1813-1894) m. Katherine Edwards (1823-1908), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
George Breed Gordon (1860-1927) m. Mary Edwards Boorum (1865-1934), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bequest from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Gordon (1934-2005);
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 7, 2005, lot 1307.
“The Gordon Bequest,” The Carnegie Magazine, VIII, no. 6 (November 1934), 172-173, illus. 172.