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American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
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- Sale 5994
Live
| Philadelphia
Nov 12 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 5994
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
With ruffled shell to crestrail, shell to seat rail and knees, ball-and-claw feet, retaining old label to interior front seat rail, inscribed "T. G. Littell Wilmington, Delaware".
H: 40 in.The chair was likely owned at one time by Thomas Gardner Littell (1837-1911), an Episcopalian priest who served at St. John's Church in Wilmington from 1868 until 1894. The prominent Littell family was related through marriage to the Shippen, Willing and Morris families of Philadelphia and Wilmington. The Littell Family papers are in the collections of the University of Delaware Library.
Provenance: Property of a Delaware estate.
