THE APTHORP FAMILY QUEEN ANNE SIDE CHAIR Likely New York Circa 1750 Chair and seat frame marked IIII Primary Woods: Walnut, Maple Secondary Woods: Maple, White Pine Height: 28 1/2 inches Width: 21 3/4 inches Depth: 21 1/2 inches Provenance: A handwritten note on a seat rail states "This "Apthorp Chair" which to the Eldest]/ daughter of each generation, named/ Elizabeth - belonged to my Great-Great/ Great Grandmother - Madam Apthorp - of/ Boston & at my death is to be given to/ my [eldest daughter] Elizabeth, to be left/ [to her descendants in] the same maner/ [signed El]izabeth H. McCalla." Sold to Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York; Benjamin and Cora Ginsburg, Tarrytown; Private Collection. Reference: This chair appears in American Art, 1750-1800 , Victorian and Albert Museum, 1962, no. 121. Other chairs from the set are at Chipstone and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a full discussion of the chairs and various viewpoints of their place of origin please see Miller, Keno and Freund, “The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence,” published in American Furniture, 1996 and Philip D. Zimmerman, "Boston or New York? Revisiting the Apthorp-Family and Related Sets of Queen Anne Chairs," in Boston Furniture, 1700-1900 .
KAST Probably Kings County (Brooklyn), New York or Possibly Bergen County Circa 1775 Primary Woods: Red Gum, Yellow Poplar, Mahogany Veneer Secondary Woods: Poplar, White Pine Height: 78 3/4 inches, Width: 74 3/4 inches, Depth: 27 inches For a kast with a very similar design layout please see Peter Kenny, American Kasten; The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650- 1800 , entry 16 for a Bergen County example and entry 9 for a Kings County example.
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