A MAGNIFICENT QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT ARMCHAIR

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Lot 358 | A MAGNIFICENT QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT ARMCHAIR
A MAGNIFICENT QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT ARMCHAIR

PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1755

top of front rail and inner rear rail incised IIII; with its original walnut and yellow pine slip-seat frame similarly marked. Chair frame impressed G.B.WOOD on underside of rear rail and on underside of front rail; slip-seat frame impressed with names of previous owners and dates of acquisition: John & Mary Ann Bacon 1801, Geo. B. Wood 1859 and Mary May DUNN 1909; currently fitted with a replaced damask-covered slip-seat frame with the original slip-seat frame housed separately

45 1⁄2 in. high







Provenance

Job Bacon (1735-1801), Greenwich, New Jersey and Philadelphia

John (1779-1859) and Mary Ann (Warder) Bacon, Philadelphia, he the son of above

George Bacon Wood (1832-1909), Germantown, Pennsylvania, grandson

Mary May (Wood) Dunn Comfort (1859-1936), Germantown and Staten Island, New York

E. Martin Wunsch (1924-2013), New York, by purchase from her descendants







Literature

Patricia E. Kane and Charles Montgomery, American Art, 1750-1800: Towards Independence (New Haven, CT, 1976), p. 146, cat. 92.

"Make Americana Great Again: The Wunsch Family Has a Plan," The Magazine Antiques (January 2017).





Exhibited

New Haven, Connecticut, The Yale University Art Gallery and London, England, The Victoria and Albert Museum, American Art, 1750-1800: Towards Independence, 3 April-23 May 1976 (New Haven) and 15 July-26 September 1976 (London).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-2021.
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