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Lot 158
Sale 5685 - 20th / 21st Century Design
May 17, 2008
8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$2,500 -
3,500
Lot Description
THONET CIRCA 1895 Pair of beech bentwood side chairs
Model no. 91. Each with an x-shaped backrest and caned seat, with a branded mark and a retailer's plaque inscribed 'Thonet Hermanos, Barcelona, 40 Pelayo 40'. (2).
H: 33 1/2, W: 16 in.
NOTE:
An identical chair from the collection of David Whitney, formerly in the Thonet museum, Frankenberg, Germany, sold, Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 2006, lot 98.
RELATED LITERATURE:
Gebruder Thonet, Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture: The 1904 Illustrated catalogue, New York, 1980, p. 20, cat. no. 91.