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A Quartet of Mahogany Phyfe Lyre Chairs, with Hairy Paw feet, c.1810, ex Burden Family / Schuyler Chapin
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Provenance in the estate of Schuyler Chaplin, who the
New York Times called "the patrician New Yorker and white-shoe impresario who
glided through society and string of jobs in the arts-including general manager
of the Metropolitan Opera, cultural affairs commissioner of New York City, and
dean of the school of arts at Columbia University". This set is known as the
"Burden family chairs" as they were inherited by Schuyler from his uncle, from
the Burdens, a well-known established New York society family commingled with the
Vanderbilt line, etc..
Exhibited: This set was originally larger, and another two chairs from it are owned by the New York Historical Society
Height: 33 in. Width: 17 1/2 in. Depth: 16 1/4 in.
Exhibited: This set was originally larger, and another two chairs from it are owned by the New York Historical Society
Height: 33 in. Width: 17 1/2 in. Depth: 16 1/4 in.
