ITEM SW01549: A Queen Anne Walnut Wing (Easy) Chair, Boston, MA, 1740-50

This wing chair was handled by John Walton, a major dealer in American decorative arts, and came out of the estate of the collectors, Ann and Philip Holzer This chair relates very closely to a number of examples illustrated both at the Metropolitan museum and Winterthur. For a comparison of these chairs, attached please find the following materials.

It is interesting to not how closely thee chairs follow the form, which is very sculptural. Our chair has its full height (see rear legs vis a vis comparisons), and is a fine example retaining its original polished surface.

	A similar Massachusetts Wing chair appears in New England Funiture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans. Click here for a side by side comparison (.pdf 500k).
	A similar Rhode Island Wing chair appears in American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Late Colonial Period: Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles, Morrison H. Heckscher. Click here for a side by side comparison (.pdf 400k).
	A similar Massachusetts Wing chair was offered by David Stockwell in 1981. Click here for a scan of this ad (.jpg 260k).

Height: 47 in. Width: 35 in. Depth: 24 in.

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