Philadelphia, circa 1815, front legs with ball and paw feet, rear saber legs, 33-1/2 x 19 x 18 in.

Provenance: Israel Sack, Inc., New York, August 1987; Virginia F. White Interiors, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1987 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $45,000); The Furnishings from Historic Iris Court: An Important Edward Vason Jones Interior

Note: These chairs are illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 7, (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers Inc., 1983), p. 1972, no. P5236 and American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 8, (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers Inc., 1986), p. 2300, no. P5236. Another from the same set was exhibited and illustrated in James Biddle, American Art from American Collections, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), no. 30. Related chairs are illustrated in Allison Boor, Philadelphia Empire Furniture, (West Chester, PA: Boor Management; Hanover, NH: Distributed by University Press of New England, 2006), p. 295, 303, figs. 152 and 159. A unique Philadelphia sideboard in the collection of Winterthur Museum has related legs and feet (see Charles Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (New York: Bonanza Books, 1978), p. 366, no. 349).