IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR

IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 1/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 2/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 3/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 4/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 5/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 6/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 7/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 8/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 9/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
IMPORTANT PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA CHIPPENDALE BLACK WALNUT ARMCHAIR (image 10/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])
Pricing & History
slightly curved crest rail with prominently voluted and carved ears above a shaped splat featuring four vertical piercing above a keyhole design flanked by a pair of smaller pierced elements, resting on a distinctive applied shoe that slightly overhangs the inside of the seat rail, boldly shaped serpentine arms terminating in volutes that are identical to the carved ears, and a trapezoidal slip seat, all raised on square legs chamfered on the inside corners joined by stretchers on three sides, the front stretcher slightly higher than the side stretchers. Original, heavy yellow pine slip-seat frame. Woods identified by microanalysis.Circa: Circa 1765-1785. Condition: Fine condition with a beautiful, rich old surface, small crack to upper splat below crest rail, feet with a virtually invisible restoration of height by Alan Anderson of Pennsylvania. When this chair was discovered in the 1990's, it had been fitted with casters and was being used as an invalid chair, necessitating restoration. Size: 36 5/8" HOA, 17 1/4" H seat, 21" WOA seat. Provenance: Provenance: From the personal collection of Milly McGehee. Catalog Notes: Catalogue Note: This chair is from the same shop as the set made for the Epps family of Appomattox Manor, Hopewell, Virginia now in the collection of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth read more
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