May 3, 2022 10:00 EST
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
70
A Chippendale carved mahogany compass-seat side chair
New York, NY, circa 1770
With a shell and volute-carved crestrail above a pierced splat, compass slip seat with cabriole legs with shell-carved legs and ball & claw feet, inner seat rail marked "I," slip seat frame marked "VIII," seat frame with numerous mends.
H: 39 in. W: 23 in. D: 18 in.
Provenance
A Greenville, Delaware estate.
Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $2,000 - $2,500
With a shell and volute-carved crestrail above a pierced splat, compass slip seat with cabriole legs with shell-carved legs and ball & claw feet, inner seat rail marked "I," slip seat frame marked "VIII," seat frame with numerous mends.
Provenance
A Greenville, Delaware estate.
Note
This side chair is one of a set of twelve that belonged to General Samuel Blachley Webb and his wife Elizabeth Bancker Webb. Webb was an aide-de-camp to General Washington, and married in 1779.
Literature
Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (1952), 150.
