Fine Philadelphia Queen Anne Compass Seat Walnut Side Chair

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Oct 17, 2024

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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

  Pennsylvania, 1740-1750, with solid splat and cabriole legs with lambrequin carved knees, burgundy upholstery, 40-1/2 x 21 x 19 in.

  Provenance: underside of seat rail inscribed "Mrs. J.A. Haskell" (red accession number on rear seat rail, 1977.184); Mount Vernon Museum and Garden; sold Sotheby's, New York, May 23rd, 2002, lot 241; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

  Note: This side chair is identical to an example bearing later labels that read "[mad]e by Edward Wright, living between Chestnut and Market Street in fourth Street the _0 day of May 1749 Philadelphia, Pa." and "These chairs were the Property of Robert Montgomery, (2nd) of Eglinton, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. New Jersey from whence they were bought [brought] Jonathan." As furniture scholar Alan Miller has noted, this chair is from the same shop that produced the Godfrey slipper foot easy chair in this sale, and the specificity and wording of the first label strongly suggests that the information was taken from an earlier document (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], p. 65, fig. 48).

• Provenance

  underside of seat rail inscribed "Mrs. J.A. Haskell" (red accession number on rear seat rail, 1977.184); Mount Vernon Museum and Garden; sold Sotheby's, New York, May 23rd, 2002, lot 241; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

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• Condition
  excellent condition overall, crack and repair at one knee return, very minor repairs at joint of crest rail to rear stiles and splat, slip seat replaced