ID 883937 
Los 411  | A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
Schätzwert
$ 60 000 – 90 000 
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN TOWNSEND (1733-1809), NEWPORT, 1765-1785
Appears to retain their original surfaces; one chair frame numbered IIIIV with its original slip-seat frame also numbered IIIIV; the other chair frame numbered VV with its original slip-seat frame also numbered VV
38 in. high (each)
Provenance
Teina Baumstone, New York
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1909–2009), Scarsdale, New York and Newport, circa 1955
Roberta Carpenter (1938–2019), Newport, widow
Christie's, New York, 22 September 2014, lot 33 (chair IIIIV only)
Literature
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Discoveries in Newport Furniture and Silver," The Magazine Antiques (July 1955), p. 45, fig. 2.
James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods from Private Collections (New York, 1963), p. 8, nos. 12, 13.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Mowbra Hall and a Collection of Period Rooms: Part 2," Connoisseur (August 1972), p. 86, fig. 9, 10.
Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker (New York, 2005), pp. 99-101, no. 13.
Laura Beach, "The Past Is Present in Newport: A Couple's Lifelong Love of Antiques," Antiques & Fine Art (Summer 2005), pp. 118, 119, 121.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 (New Haven, Connecticut, 2016), p. 376, fn.6.
Glenn Adamson, "Collector Profile: Make Americana Great Again, The Wunsch Family Has a Plan," The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2016), p. 46.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at The Yale University Art Gallery, RIF7001 (chair IIIIV) and RIF4038 (chair VV).
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, 6 May-25 September 2005.
| Künstler: | John Townsend (1733 - 1809) | 
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| Material: | Mahagoni, Naturholz | 
| Kunst Stil: | Chippendale (1750-1780) | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle | 
| Künstler: | John Townsend (1733 - 1809) | 
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| Material: | Mahagoni, Naturholz | 
| Kunst Stil: | Chippendale (1750-1780) | 
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Sessel und Stühle | 
| Adresse der Versteigerung | CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York Vereinigten Staaten | ||||||||||||||
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