Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2494Location: BostonDate / Time: March 07, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
Chippendale Mahogany Side Chair, Boston, c. 1760-80, refinished, (imperfections),ht. 38, seat ht. 17 1/2 in.
Literature: A similar chair is illustrated and discussed in New England Furniture at Winterthur, by Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, (University Press of New England, 1997),p. 99, fig. 55; Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, University Press of Virginia, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, shows an identical Boston chair p. 220, plate 153.
Estimate $800-1,200
one glue block a likely replacement;