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Americana & International Auction - Session Two

Fri, Apr 22, 2022 09:00AM EDT
Lot 483

Eight Philadelphia Federal mahogany dining chairs

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
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$500 $50
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$2,000 $200
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
$200,000 $20,000
$500,000 $50,000

Set of eight Philadelphia Federal mahogany dining chairs, ca. 1805, probably made in the workshop of Henry Connelly, each with a scrollwork back, with carved urn and rosettes, above an over-upholstered balloon seat supported by turned and fluted legs; nearly identical examples of the urn-and-drapery design are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 44.106, and in Robert Bishop's The American Chair, example 311, p. 221. Provenance: The Estate of Christopher T. Rebollo.

Condition

Two chairs do not match and have several repaired breaks to back and legs reattached to seat frames.

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