Queen Anne walnut armchair
Queen Anne walnut armchair
Probably Lancaster, Pennsylvania
c. 1760
Walnut, upholstered with reindeer hides from the 1786 shipwreck of the "Die Frau Metta Catherina", St. Petersburg, Russia
Provenance: Parke Bernet Galleries, The Collection of Arthur J. Sussel, Philadelphia, October 1958; Pook and Pook Inc., The Pioneer collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley, April 2007; The William K. Du Pont Collection
Literature: For a related example in the Henry Francis Du Pont collection at Winterthur see Swank, Art of the Pennsylvania Germans, p. 119, fig. 67.