The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
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Lot Details
Description
Important Queen Anne Inlaid Walnut Schrank
Lancaster or Chester, Pennsylvania
Circa 1750
Appears to retain a majority of its original wrought iron hardware. The feet, top central section of the cornice molding, and the key stone replaced.
Height 107 in. by Width 73 in. by Depth 21 in.
L.J. Gilbert & Sons Auctioneers, Sadsburysville, Pennsylvania, Early American Antiques: Private Collections of Meda Randall, Sadsburyville, PA & Blanche P. Irvine, Downingtown, Pa, October 14, 1936;
Joane Smith (Mrs. Richard Flanders), Lancaster, Pennsylvania;
Vernon Gunnion Antiques, Lancaster, Pennsylvania;
William K. du Pont, Newark, Delaware.
Retaining a majority of its original wrought iron hardware, this schrank displays unusual pulls with pierced diamond-shaped back plates that are nearly identical to a pair of wrought iron pulls made in Chester County. The pulls are in the Titus C. Geesey Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and illustrated by Beatrice B. Garvan in The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982): no. 1, p. 91.