$42,120
Southeastern Pennsylvania William & Mary walnut wainscot armchair, ca. 1720 , with a pierced and scalloped crest, raised panel back flanked by downward sloping arms and turned blocked legs joined by baluster and ring turned medial stretcher and double side stretchers. For a similar example. see Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair , fig. 4; and Schiffer, Furniture and It's Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania , fig. 162. A nearly identical chair, most likely from the same cabinet shop was sold as part of the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Jeffords, Sotheby's, October 2004, lot 206. Provenance: Israel Sack, 1961. A copy of a letter from Donald Shelley referring to this piece accompanies the lot.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2007-04-21
