Sold for:
$17,550
$17,550
Philadelphia Queen Anne walnut armchair, ca. 1730 , with scalloped crest and upholstered back flanked by molded arms with scrolled handholds, supported by bulbous turned and blocked legs ending in Spanish feet with baluster and ring medial stretcher. Illustrated in Kindig, The Philadelphia Chair , #16. For a related example, see Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition , fig. 730; and Lindsey, Worldly Goods , pg. 5 , fig. 6. Provenance: Joe Kindig Jr. & Son Antiques, 1963. A copy of a letter from Donald Shelley listing this piece accompanies lot.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2007-04-21
