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Rare Chippendale Mahogany Armchair
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1750-60

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$5,120 inc. premium

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Rare Chippendale Mahogany Armchair

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1750-60
Finely carved and shaped crest, splat, and arm supports over seat frame with double-pinned through tenons; the needlepoint seat cover signed "CKS 1934" is stretched over a plywood frame, 66cm wide, 68cm deep, 106cm high (26 5/8in wide, 27 1/2in deep, 42 1/2in high). Seat ht. to rail, 16 5/8 in.

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Provenance
Purchased by Ethel Gardner Dominick Stout (1876-1965) and Andrew Varick Stout (1872-1953) from Ginsburg & Levy, New York, New York, 1928.
Gardner Dominick Stout (1903-84) and Clare Kellogg Stout (1908-89), New York and New Canaan, Connecticut.
Prentice K. Stout (1933-2021), Wakefield, Rhode Island.
Timothy M. Stout, Burlington, Vermont.
Bittner Antiques, Shelburne, Vermont, 2024.

Literature
Illustrated in Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture and Glass (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), cat. no. 623.

The shaped floral motif centering broad, scroll-eared crest rail, has been identified as a regional characteristic of Pennsylvania furniture. The armchair is referred to in comparison with a side chair illustrated in Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times (New York: American Art Association, 1931), cat. no. 377.

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