A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR

PHILADELPHIA, 1755-1775

细节

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIR
Philadelphia, 1755-1775
The shaped crestrail embellished with carved tassels flanked by conforming rope carving continuing to molded outscrolling ears, all centered by a leaf carved scallop shell above a pierced baluster splat embellished with rosette, leaf and scrolled carving over a molded trapezoidal slip-seat, the front rail centered by a carved shell and flanked by foliate carving, on cabriole legs with floral, leaf and scroll-carved knees with ball-and-claw feet
39in. high

来源

Israel Sack, Inc., New York City

出版

Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, Washington, D.C., vol.II, p.436.

拍品专文

The skillful combination and distribution of carved motifs on the undulating crest rail, interlacing strapwork splat, and cabriole legs of this chair, exemplify the American rococo as it was manifested in Philadelphia. A nearly identical chair is published in Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), p.44 under the rubric of "Superior."

A third chair, similar in all aspects of design and carving to the one offered here, is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum and is published in Brock Jobe, et.al., American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts, 1660-1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection (New York), 1991, p.139, fig.59.