May 3, 2022 10:00 EST
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
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A Chippendale carved walnut side chair
Philadelphia, PA, circa 1765
Shaped cresting, carved shell to center, flanked by volutes, scrolled ears, slip seat, cabriole legs terminating in ball-and-claw feet, numbered "II" to interior seat frame, retaining old label inscribed, "This chair belonged to Margaret Morris 1737..."
H: 39 1/2 in. W: 23 1/2 in. D: 17 in.
Provenance
Margaret Hill Morris (1737-1816) was a Quaker medical practitioner who during the Revolutionary War offered assistance to both sides of the conflict. Her diary of events in and around her home in Burlington, New Jersey from 1776 to 1778 offer vivid accounts of troop movements, troop behavior, and the difficulties of war. The diary, published in 1836, as The Revolutionary Journal of Margaret Morris, Of Burlington, N.J., December 6, 1776 to June 11, 1778 is now in the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Margaret Hill was born near Annapolis, Maryland to Richard Hill, a physician and trader, and Deborah Moore Hill. Her parents moved to Madeira when Margaret was a small child and she was raised in Philadelphia by her older sister, Hannah and her husband, Dr. Samuel Preston Moore. She married Philadelphia dry goods merchant Willam Morris (1735-1766) in 1758. At the death of her husband Morris moved to Burlington, New Jersey with her four surviving children.
Sold for $10,710
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Shaped cresting, carved shell to center, flanked by volutes, scrolled ears, slip seat, cabriole legs terminating in ball-and-claw feet, numbered "II" to interior seat frame, retaining old label inscribed, "This chair belonged to Margaret Morris 1737..."
Provenance
Margaret Hill Morris (1737-1816) was a Quaker medical practitioner who during the Revolutionary War offered assistance to both sides of the conflict. Her diary of events in and around her home in Burlington, New Jersey from 1776 to 1778 offer vivid accounts of troop movements, troop behavior, and the difficulties of war. The diary, published in 1836, as The Revolutionary Journal of Margaret Morris, Of Burlington, N.J., December 6, 1776 to June 11, 1778 is now in the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Margaret Hill was born near Annapolis, Maryland to Richard Hill, a physician and trader, and Deborah Moore Hill. Her parents moved to Madeira when Margaret was a small child and she was raised in Philadelphia by her older sister, Hannah and her husband, Dr. Samuel Preston Moore. She married Philadelphia dry goods merchant Willam Morris (1735-1766) in 1758. At the death of her husband Morris moved to Burlington, New Jersey with her four surviving children.
