PAIR OF BALTIMORE FEDERAL CARVED AND INLAID SIDE CHAIRS, heart-and-shield back form, each featuring complex-inlaid pendant bellflowers and lower fan having sand-burnt shading, carved foliate devices, molded frame, and serpentine front seat rail, all raised on square-tapered front legs ending in spade feet and square swept rear legs joined with side, rear, and off-set medial stretcher, over-the-rail upholstered seats, old printed label for "C. F. Meislahn & Co. / Baltimore, MD" applied to rear rail, old accession number to reverse. Each retains an old surface with rich color. Circa 1810. Each 39" H, 18 1/2" x 20 1/2" seat.
Good overall condition with minor wear and cracks. Both with small losses to inlaid fan at base of back, one example with restoration to inlaid fan.
Literature: See The Baltimore Museum of Art - Baltimore Furniture: The Work of Baltimore and Annapolis Cabinetmakers from 1760-1810, fig. 55, p. 92, and fig. 61, p. 98 for two similar examples.

Good overall condition with minor wear and cracks. Both with small losses to inlaid fan at base of back, one example with restoration to inlaid fan.