CHIPPENDALE SIDE CHAIR Philadelphia Circa 1770 Primary Wood: Mahogany Secondary Woods: Atlantic White Cedar, Yellow Pine
Height: 38 inches Width: 24 inches Depth: 22 inches
Provenance: William Greenleaf Boardman, Hartford, Connecticut; Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.; Ralph Esmerian, New York; Private Collection, Virginia
Reference: This chair is part of a set, one example of which is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Late Colonial Period: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles , pages 103-104, plate 57 and The Girl Scouts' Loan Exhibition, number 637; Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. Galley Catalog VII , page 46.
INLAID BOW-FRONT CHEST OF DRAWERS Baltimore Circa 1790 Primary Wood: Mahogany Secondary Woods: Tulip Poplar, White Pine
Height: 37 inches Width 41 inches Depth: 23 inches
Provenance: According to a note no longer with the chest it descended in the Contee family; to John C. Tolland, Baltimore, Maryland.
Reference: This chest appears in Edgar Miller, Jr, American Antique Furniture , 1937, page 409, number 735.
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