THE JOHN TOWNSEND PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN TOWNSEND (1733-1809), NEWPORT, 1760-1790

THE JOHN TOWNSEND PAIR OF CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN TOWNSEND (1733-1809), NEWPORT, 1760-1790
both chairs with their original slip-seat frames, each with T hand-inscribed in ink, and WPB hand-inscribed in graphite on inside of rear rail; one chair with frame marked III, slip-seat frame marked III and Bullock hand-inscribed in graphite on slip-seat frame; the other chair with frame marked X, slip-seat frame marked X
37 ½ in. high

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Provenance
John Townsend (1733–1809), Newport
Solomon Townsend (1776–1821), Newport and Providence or possibly Mary (Townsend) Brinley (1769-1856), Newport, children of above
William Peckham Bullock (1805-1862) and his wife, Phila Feke Townsend (1812–1866), Providence, she the daughter and niece respectively of above
Rhoda Peckham Bullock (1852–1940), Providence, daughter
William Bullock Waterman, Jr. (1889–1959), Providence, nephew
William Bullock Waterman III (1918–2000), West Hartford and Simsbury, Connecticut, son
Richard William Waterman (b. 1961), son and current owner

Saleroom Notice
Please note that this lot will be held at Christie's Rockefeller Center until Monday January 22nd and then will be transferred to CFASS on Tuesday January 23rd.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JOHN TOWNSEND, NEWPORT CABINETMAKER

Literature
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF6104.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art & Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 (New Haven, Connecticut, 2016), pp. 91 (fn.17), 251, 345–348, 378, cat. 71.

Exhibited
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, Art & Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, 19 August 2016-8 January 2017.