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THE DESHLER FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

Lot 503
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1122078
Lot 503 | THE DESHLER FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
THE DESHLER FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

THE CARVING ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN POLLARD (1740-1787), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1769

the chair frame numbered II on top edge of front seat rail and on interior of rear seat rail, with its original yellow pine slip-seat frame numbered II; the slip-seat frame with eighteenth-century handwritten inscription in ink reading Desh... [Deshler] and the interior of rear seat rail with handwritten inscription in pencil B. Smith; the exterior of rear seat rail with old loan number 21.1924.1

38 ½ in. high





Provenance

Probable line of descent:

Esther (Deshler) Morton (1740-1787), Philadelphia, by gift from her father David Deshler (1711-1792), circa 1769

John Morton (c.1739-1828), husband

Esther (Morton) Smith (1797-1865), daughter

Benjamin Rapier Smith (1825-1904), Germantown and Newport, Rhode Island, son

Esther Morton Smith (1865-1942), Germantown and Newport, daughter

Henry Austin Wood, Jr. (1903-1982), Newport, nephew

Christie's, New York, 18 October 1986, lot 512

Mr. and Mrs. Eddy G. Nicholson, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire

The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Christie's, New York, 24 January 2014, lot 107



Literature

F. K. W. and Horace H. F. Jayne, "Exhibition of Furniture of the Chippendale Style," Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, vol. 19, no. 86 (May 1924), p. 164, pls. IV and IX.

Alice Winchester, "Living with Antiques: The Newport Home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Wood, Jr.," The Magazine Antiques (December 1955), p. 566 (top).

Luke Beckerdite, “Pattern Carving in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,” American Furniture 2014, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee, 2014), p. 128, figs. 88, 89.



Exhibited

Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Furniture of the Chippendale Style, 1924.
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