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The Dawes-Morris Family Rare and Outstanding Set of Six Chippendale Walnut Side Chairs

Artist:	Not Available
Category:	Furniture - American
SubType:	Chair
Origin:	PA
Style:	Chair
Era:	18th Century
Height:	39 inches



Each having a serpentine crest centered by a carved shell over a pierced vase-form splat, molded seat rail with original slip frame, a front seat rail centered by a carved shell continuing to cabriole legs with shell carved knees ending in ball and claw feet and retaining a fine old surface and mellow patina. In an incredible state of preservation with each chair retaining its original slip seat frame and all of its original knee returns and interior glue blocks. Philadelphia. Provenance: Originally owned by James Morris, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker and merchant, and his wife Elizabeth (Dawes) at Dawesfield, in Whitpain Township, Pa., and have descended directly through maternal lines of their family on the same tract of family land until the present time.

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