A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY EASY CHAIR

The sweeping curves, graceful silhouette and acanthus-carved knees of this easy chair illustrate the celebrated Rococo aesthetic of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Several other examples display a similar vocabulary and layout of ornament. These include an example hailed as a “Masterpiece” by Albert Sack in The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), p. 74; another in the collection of Winterthur Museum (Joseph Downs, American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (New York, 1952), no. 91); and a third previously part of the Robb Collection (Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, pp. 1222-1223).