Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
The Frye Family Queen Anne Dressing Table, Andover, Massachusetts, circa 1750
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
maple
height 31 ½ in. by width 37 in. by depth 21 ¼ in.
written in large script on the back of the lowboy is Gilbert Frye Winsted Conn; retains an early historic surface; proper right front foot partially replaced.
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likely Lieut Timothy Frye (1734-1811) m. Hannah Carleton (1741-1835), Andover, Massachusetts;
Timothy Frye Jr. (1762-1854), Andover, Massachusetts, son;
Gilbert Frye (1811-1875), Andover, Massachusetts, son;
Artemus Frye (1815-1898), Winchester, Connecticut, brother;
thus by decent in the Frye family;
Grace and Elliot Snyder, South Egremont, Massachusetts;
Stephen and Dinah Lefkowitz, New York;
Elliott and Grace Snyder, South Egremont, Massachusetts.
Laura Beach, "Restraint and Abundance," Antiques & Fine Art, 6th Anniversary, 218;
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. 139, fig. 270.
Gilbert Frye (1811-1875), a miller, lived in Andover, Massachusetts with his wife, Hannah Batcheller Gray, and four children. His brother, Artimus Frye (1815-1819), a scythe maker, lived in Winsted, Winchester Township, Litchfield County, Connecticut. He likely moved there after his marriage to Mariam E Johnson (1816–1886). Their father, Timothy Frye (1762-1854), was a farmer, tanner and currier.
Kemble Widmer has surmised, based on the table's construction, that the individual who made the table may have apprenticed in Marblehead or Salem and then moved to the North Shore between Merrimack and Piscataway Rivers.