THE JOHN LAMBERT CHIPPENDALE SIDE CHAIR

Philadelphia Circa 1770

Primary Wood: Mahogany
Secondary Wood: Yellow Pine

Height: 38 1/4 inches
Width: 24 inches
Depth: 17 1/2 inches

Provenance: Family history of this chair states that it was part of a set made for New Jersey Governor John Lambert of Lambertville, descending in the Lambert and Seabrook families. Unfortunately, an alternative provenance put forth in a January, 1948 The Magazine Antiques advertisement on page 32, which states that the chairs descended in the Custis family, and had occupied George Washington’s front parlor on High Street, cannot be proven.

Reference: A single chair from the same set appears in William McPherson Hornor, Jr.’s, Blue Book; Philadelphia Furniture, William Penn to George Washington, plate 163.

Inventory Number: 5772