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tillouantiques.com • Litchfield, CT • 860-567-9693 RARE CHIPPENDALE CARVED SIDE CHAIR Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ca. 1760–1775 Bears label inside rail: Given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 1955, with the provision of a life interest in the donor. Cherry Condition: Fine condition, original slip seat, retains an old varnish finish The serpentine crest rail with carved shell and scroll ears above a pierced splat centered with a tassel, the astragal slip-seat frame carved with a shell and joining frontal cabriole legs with shell-carved knees and ending in ball-and-claw feet, the seat rail and original seat frame with Roman numeral II. Provenance: Charles C. Willis, Newtown, Pennsylvania 1955; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, sold with the approval of the trustees to benefit acquisition funds, Christie’s September 24, 2012, lot 16; Kelly Kinzle, Oxford, Pennsylvania. Literature: Louis C. Madeira and Henry P. McIllenny, “The New Arts Wing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art” in The Magazine Antiques, March 1959, p. 261. A similar mahogany chair (one of a pair) is illustrated and discussed in Morrison Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Late Colonial Period, Queen Anne and Chippendale, pp. 95–96. 39½" h x 24" w (at knees) x 21½" d; 18" h (seat) ✷ 74 ✷ BOOTH ✷ 50 ✷