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A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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20.01.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 883937
Lot 411 | A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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.
Artist:John Townsend (1733 - 1809)
Medium:Mahogany, Wood
Art style:Chippendale (1750-1780)
Category:Chair
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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