ID 1122078
Lot 503 | THE DESHLER FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
Valeur estimée
$ 100 000 – 150 000
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.
| Matériel: | Acajou, Bois naturel |
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| Style artistique: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Meubles et Lampes, Fauteuils et chaises |
| Matériel: | Acajou, Bois naturel |
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| Style artistique: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Meubles et Lampes, Fauteuils et chaises |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York Etats-Unis | ||||||||||||||
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