CHIPPENDALE SIDE CHAIR Possibly by John Goddard Newport Circa 1770 Primary Wood: Walnut; Secondary Wood: White Pine
Height: 40 inches Width: 22 inches Depth: 19 inches
CHIPPENDALE HIGH CHEST OF DRAWERS Attributed to Thomas Tufft (1740-1788) Philadelphia Circa 1770 Provenance: Joe Kindig, Jr. York, Pennsylvania; Dr. Paul Delong, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Ginsburg & Levy, Inc. New York. Reference: Illustrated in a Joseph Kindig, Inc. advertisement in The Magazine Antiques, December 1936 . Also see Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Three Centuries of American Furniture, page 80, figure IV-64; The broken arch top of this highboy is similar to the Worrall Family highboy pictured in William Horner, Jr., Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture , plate 160. For another very similar triangular pediment Philadelphia high chest made for Richard Edwards and documented by a bill to the Tufft shop see Christie’s, Important Philadelphia Furniture from the Edwards Family, May 28, 1987, lot 201 and Carl M. Williams, “Thomas Tufft and His Furniture for Richard Edwards,” The Magazine Antiques, October, 1948 .
Reference: This form of Newport chair is well represented in major museum collections. For other chairs of this type please see Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 , 58n23 and 341n2–3 and 341n2, no. 69, fig. 1, 3–4.; Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone , number 52, pages 122–123; and Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards , 14, 58, fig. 1.49.
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