拍品 1073
  • 1073

A VERY FINE AND RARE PILGRIM CENTURY JOINED OAK, PINE AND MAPLE CHEST WITH DRAWER, NEWBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1690 |

估價
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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描述

  • Height 27 1/4 in. by Width 43 1/4 in. by Depth 19 1/2 in.; 69.2 by 109.9 by 49.5 cm.
retains a dark, rich surface; inscribed with the accession no. 10.125.30; drawer moldings replaced. 

來源

H. Eugene Bolles, Boston,  Massachusetts;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Katherine Prentis Murphy, Concord, New Hampshire;
New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire;
Robert W. Skinner Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers, Bolton, Massachusetts, The Katherine Prentis Murphy Collection from the New Hampshire Historical Society, September 24, 1983, sale 922, lot 159;
John S. Walton, Griswold, Connecticut, October 1983;
Vogel Collection no. 395.

出版

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1926), p. 46, fig. 36 (lacking drawer moldings);
Herbert Cescinsky and George Leland Hunter, English and American Furniture, (Grand Rapids, MI: Dean-Hicks Co., 1929), p. 43;
Walter A. Dyer and C. F. Luther, “Sunflowers: These Connecticut Chests, in More Than One Way, Exemplify the Good Taste and Honest Craftsmanship of the Earliest American Furniture,” The Antiquarian, September 1930, p. 52;
Irving P. Lyon, M.D., "The Oak Furniture of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part V. Small-Panel-Type Affiliates," Magazine Antiques, June 1938, fig. 45;
Clarence P. Hornung, Treasury of American Design and Antiques, (New York: Harrison House/H.N. Abrams: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1986), p. 256, no. 895;
Robert Trent, ed., Pilgrim Century Furniture: An Historical Survey, (New York: Main Street/Universe Books, 1976), pp. 73-5. fig. 45.

Condition

Overall fine condition. Retains traces of its original polychrome paint, moldings on drawer replaced. Wear commensurate with age and use. The proper left hinge is slightly loose due to a warp in the batton. Traces of worm/insect holes to the feet.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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拍品資料及來源

This chest is one of a significant group of joined furniture made in and around Newbury, Massachusetts in the late 17th and very early 18th century.  All chests from this group have a large, ornately turned maple half-column secured to each of the front stiles, while the inner muntins have pairs of smaller maple half-columns, all of which have been ebonized.  When original, all have a single pine board top secured to the case with hinges formed from the top’s oak cleats. Their drawers are either ornamented with applied moldings or in a few instances simply delineated with paint. When dated, they range from 1693 to 1702.  The most intriguing aspect of these chests is the tartan paint decoration on the front panels. Nearly all of the chests have this attribute. The joiner laid out the pattern with scribe lines and generally the vertical lines alternate between red and black while the horizontal lines are all red. The best-preserved example of the group is in the collection of the The American Museum at Claverton Manor in Britain and is illustrated in Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition: A History of Early Furniture in the British Isles and New England (Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1979), p. 225, pl. 9. Other examples from the group are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. no. 37.91), the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (with half-column applied to panels) (acc. no. 1926.308), and Connecticut Landmarks (see Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965), pp. 14-5, no. 12; Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, (New York: MacMillan Co., 1928), no. 451; “Recent Acquisitions: The Clark Collection,” The Decorative Arts Society Newsletter, December 1982). Several others are in private collections (see Irving P. Lyon, M.D., "The Oak Furniture of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part V. Small-Panel-Type Affiliates," Magazine Antiques, June 1938, fig. 46 and 47 (MK 1699); “Made in New England: Furniture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Newton,” Antiques Magazine, July 1944, p. 26, fig. 2 (AB 1701); Peter Benes, Old-Town and the Waterside: Two Hundred Years of Tradition and Change in Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, 1635-1835, (Newburyport, MA: Historical Society of Old Newbury, 1986), p. 36., no. 8; Christie’s, New York, Fine Americana, January 1979, lot 296; Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, January 23, 2005, sale 8053, lot 1123, an unpublished example is dated 1701 initial CD and another dated 1702). For additional information on Essex County joinery and turning see Robert F. Trent, Peter Follansbee, and Alan Miller, “First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop,” American Furniture 2001, ed. Luke Beckerdite, (Milwaukee, WI, Chipstone Foundation, 2001), pp. 1-64.