Very Rare Queen Anne Leather-Upholstered Walnut Open Armchair, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Circa 1760
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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Very Rare Queen Anne Leather-Upholstered Walnut Open Armchair
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Circa 1760
Upholstered with reindeer hides from the 1786 shipwreck of the Die Frau Metta Catherina, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Height 45 in. by Width 25 1/2 in. by Depth 21 1/2 in.; Seat Height 15 in.
Parke Bernet Galleries, Arts and Crafts of Pennsylvania and Other Notable Americana: Part One of the Collection of the Late Arthur J. Sussel, Philadelphia, October 23, 24, & 25, 1958, sales 1847, lot 592;
Pook and Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Pioneer American Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley, April 21, 2007, lot 450.
Pook and Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Pioneer American Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley, April 21, 2007, lot 450.
A chair of similar design is in the collection of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (see Scott T. Swank, Art of the Pennsylvania Germans, (New York: Norton, 1983), fig. 67).
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