Live Auction 11985American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver
A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 76 PROPERTY FROM THE ROSEBROOK COLLECTION

A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS

PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS
PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1750
en suite with the preceding lot; the first chair marked VI with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VI; the second chair marked VIII with its original yellow-pine slip-seat frame marked VIII
39 1/2 in. high

Chair VI:
Possibly Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
Joe Kindig, Jr. & Son, York, Pennsylvania, 1952
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 1991, lot 325

Chair VIII:
Possible line of descent:
Jacques Marie Rosét (Jacob Rozet) (1764-1850), Lyons, France, Philadelphia and Germantown, Pennsylvania
John Rozet (1794-1870), Philadelphia, son
Mary Ann Lanning Rozet (1824-1885), daughter
Dr. John Livingston Ludlow (1819-1888), husband
George W. Childs Drexel (1868-1944), Philadelphia and “Wootton,” Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1877-1959), nephew
Livingston Ludlow Biddle, Jr. (1917-2002), son
Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, 21 June 1989, lot 409

Specialist note

See catalogue note to the previous lot.