
Lot 11
China Trade Chippendale Side Chair, late 18th century.
26 March – 5 April 2023, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$2,167.50 inc. premium
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China Trade Chippendale Side Chair,
late 18th century.
Carved shell crest with scrolled ears, carved and pierced splat between scratch beaded stiles forming rear legs below through-tenoned seat rails, the front cabriole legs having acanthus carved knees ending in claw and ball feet, joined to the rear legs by baluster-turned stretchers, rear left foot repaired, 60cm wide, 55cm deep, 99cm high (24in wide, 22in deep, 39in high).
Carved shell crest with scrolled ears, carved and pierced splat between scratch beaded stiles forming rear legs below through-tenoned seat rails, the front cabriole legs having acanthus carved knees ending in claw and ball feet, joined to the rear legs by baluster-turned stretchers, rear left foot repaired, 60cm wide, 55cm deep, 99cm high (24in wide, 22in deep, 39in high).
Footnotes
Literature
The chair appears in a bedroom of the Thomas Poynton Ives House in "Living with Antiques: The Providence Home of Mrs. R. H. Ives Goddard," The Magazine Antiques 87/5 (May 1965): 585.