A Very Fine and Rare Pair of Queen Anne Side Chairs, New York or New Jersey, Circa 1755

H. & R. Sandor, New Hope, Pennsylvania.

H. & R. Sandor advertisement, Magazine Antiques (August 1977), p. 161.

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Nancy Brannigan Painter, “Objects of Affection,” New Jersey Monthly (November 2006), 112-7;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 116, fig. 227.

A closely related set constructed of cherrywood descended in the family of Colonel Edmund T. Williams (1804-1888) of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Two of the chairs are in the collection of the Monmouth County Historical Association (acc. no. 1977.3.4), a third is in the collection at Winterthur (acc .no. 1958.961), and a fourth is in a private New York collection. Another variant of the chair is illustrated in Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Galley Guide VII, (New York: 1990), p. 35.