circa 1765-1775, with robust carving attributed to Hercules Courtenay, leaf and shell crest over stop-fluted stiles, shell-carved rail, 41-3/4 x 23-1/2 x 22 in.

Provenance: Alan Miller, Quakertown, Pennsylvania; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey

The design of this chair represents the Philadelphia Chippendale in its fully developed and highly successful form. This example is distinguished by its particularly successful sinuous carving. Very closely related examples, possibly from the same set, are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see Hipkiss, M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth Century American Arts, Boston, 1941, p. 148, fig. 86, acc. no. 39.169) and in the Henry Ford Museum, (see Helen Comstock, American Furniture, New York, 1962, fig. 263. An additional example, formerly in the WIlliam K. Du Pont collection, sold Sotheby's, The Wolf Family Collection, 21 April 2023, lot 850.