Lot 232
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RARE QUEEN ANNE CARVED MAHOGANY TEAKETTLE STAND, possibly by John Townsend, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1780

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • mahogany
  • Height 29 in. by Width 7 7/8 in. by Depth 7 7/8 in.

Provenance

John Walton, Jewett City, Connecticut, October 1974

Condition

Gallery possibly replaced.
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Catalogue Note

A very closely related example is in the collection of Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware (see Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, distributed by University Press of New England, 1997), p. 280, 287-8, no. 150).  Another related stand was in the Garbisch collection and was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., Pokety Farms, Maryland, The Garbisch Collection, Volume Four: Important American Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, Mary 24-25, 1980, sale H-2, lot 1091.