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.

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.

Provenance

A Greenville, Delaware estate.

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A Chippendale carved mahogany compass-seat side chair New York, NY, circa 1770

H: 39 in. W: 23 in. D: 18 in.

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.

Provenance

A Greenville, Delaware estate.

American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Chippendale carved mahogany compass-seat side chair New York, NY, circa 1770

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A Chippendale carved mahogany compass-seat side chair New York, NY, circa 1770