Featured Chippendale Chairs Attribution

I think they corrected their listings?
Here's the armchair's: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/96516178_george-ii-mahogany-armchair-c-1760-height-40-inches, and here's the side chair:

My guess is that the cataloger just messed up on the side chair's cover photo and used the armchair?

 

Thanks for showing this.

 

Mystery solved. Perhaps, they have someone doing their uploading that doesn't work with the material, and they were working quickly to meet a deadline.

 

Thanks, everyone. I read about other people’s successes at furniture auctions and am audacious enough to think I can do it!

Even corrected, it looks as if bidding on the Chippendale chair still starts at $200.

I just don’t know enough about that type of older, finer, furniture, especially if I can’t see it in person. I’m not going to bid on it, but I’m going to try to follow and see what the final price is.

I looked on that same website and saw an upcoming antique furniture auction in Scotland with utterly amazing pieces.

 

I feel you. It is a very daunting world. I find that some auction houses set the entry point far lower than what the reserve is and even the estimate is low. I think they are looking for bargain hunters who lose control, because they get fixed on the idea that they want it.

 

Of course you can do it! It's not that hard, the main ingredient required for success is, patience.

 

According to Live Auctioneers, the lot was passed on, even though bidding started at $200.

 

@James Conrad could correct me but I suppose it didn't pass muster as authentic.

 

Hard to say as the listing was messed up from the get-go but, the armchair was English and sold for $275. perhaps the side chair was English as well.
Similar form pieces that are American generally speaking sell for more money because they are much rarer for one thing, we didn't have the population that Europe did in those days.
Ditto southern early furniture, because of war & climate there is much less early southern furniture that survives so it tends to sell for more than similar form new england pieces.
Just looked at the English armchair, the back feet were ended out several inches so condition played a role here as well.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/96516178_george-ii-mahogany-armchair-c-1760-height-40-inches
Another factor is, when you screw up a listing as badly as this auction house did at a time when online sales are critical as in-person sales are very sketchy due to virus issues, I not surprised the side chair was passed.

 

It’ll be interesting to follow it.