Set of Four Federal Mahogany Upholstered Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1810.

Set of Four Federal Mahogany Upholstered Side Chairs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1810. Square-back crest over pierced racquet-shaped splat between tapering columns, carved with beaded edges and relief decoration including rosettes, bellflowers, darts, and foliage, all between two shaped stiles continuing to out-swept rear legs below the over-upholstered seat, whose serpentine front rail is raised on string-inlaid tapered legs, the legs joined with box stretchers, 50cm wide, 50cm deep, 91cm high (20in wide, 20in deep, 36in high). Seat ht. 18 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Kyser-Hollingsworth, Washington, DC, 2 November 2002. Literature For a Maryland example with the same splat pattern in the collection of Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 57.772.1, 2), see Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), cat. no. 105. Montgomery identifies the source of the pattern in Thomas Sheraton, 'Backs for Parlour Chairs,' Appendix to the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (London: T. Bensley, 1793), plate 28. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing