Lot 356: q A QUEEN ANNE MAPLE SIDE CHAIR, ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SAVERY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA CIRC

front seat rail replaced. This lot is not subject to the sales tax exemption as stated in the notice in the front of this catalogue. This chair is similar in design to rush-seat side chairs labeled by William Savery (1721/2-1787), a Philadelphia cabinet- and chairmaker known to have made a quantity of such chairs, counting some eighty-three examples in stock at one time (William M. Hornor, Blue Book Philadelphia Furniture, 1935, p. 295). A closely- related side chair with Savery's label sold in these rooms, Important Americana, January 16-7, 1999, Sale 7253, lot 766, est. $20,000-40,000, for $134,500. A Savery-labeled chest of drawers with a history of descent in the Hopkins family of Haddonfield, New Jersey sold as lot 765 in the same sale, est. $80,000-150,000, for $200,500. Another related rush-seat side chair labeled by Savery is illustrated in Horner, pl. 462.

Purchased August 5, 1957 from John S. Walton, New York, New York