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THBExceptional Philadelphia Queen Anne Shell Carved Walnut Easy Chair
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveOct 17, 2024
Features a remarkable selection of historic Americana, including important 18th-century American furniture and Delft from the collection of Constance & Dudley Godfrey; an exceptionally rare North Carolina survey map; New England & Philadelphia furniture, including an exceptional Philadelphia easy chair & a rare Connecticut Chippendale carved cherry chest in undisturbed surface; from a Revolutionary & patriotic-focused New England collection are rare prints & documents, early brass, ceramics, furniture, & accessories; a group of early portraits features Sully, Stuart, & Sharples; & much more Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
1740-1750, the graceful frame with arched back and scrolled arms, shell carved knees and slipper feet, deeply flared rear legs, mellow old surface set with a fine sittable, non-intrusive upholstery system designed and fabricated by Leroy Graves, fitting the chair out in green wool with loose seat cushion, 45-1/2 x 36 x 28-1/4 in.
Provenance: Sold Skinner, November 2nd, 1991, lot 50; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey
Note: This easy chair is one of three nearly identical examples, each of which represent the pinnacle of early Georgian easy chair design in colonial America. All have frames with graceful cheeks, outward flaring arms with horizontal and vertical scrolls, compass seats, and cabriole legs with slipper feet and exquisitely carved shells. As furniture scholar Alan Miller has shown, the shop responsible for these three examples also produced the finest armchairs and side chairs of the period (Alan Miller, "Flux in Design and Method in Early Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Furniture," in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite ([Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2014], pp. 61-66, figs. 43-49). Less expensive variants of these easy chairs are known, including one with plain knees in the collection of Wright's Ferry (Joe Kindig and Phillip Zimmerman, catalog entry 7, Wright's Ferry: The Collection, 2 vols.[Columbia, PA: Wright's Ferry Association, 2005], 1:46). The easy chairs that match the Godfrey example are in a Pennsylvania collection; one was acquired privately by William K. du Pont, and the other sold at Horst auctions for $450,000 (hammer price) (https://www.horstauction.com/antiques-americana-auctions/featured-furniture/philadelphia-queen-anne-wing-back-chair).
- Provenance
Sold Skinner, November 2nd, 1991, lot 50; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey
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- Condition
rear legs ended out 2-1/2 -3 inches (angled joint), otherwise very fine condition with minor breaks and glue repairs to front toes, typical light bumps and wear to knees and feet, modern upholstery not removed for exam, all conservation work was performed by Alan Miller
