Very Fine and Rare Queen Anne Cherrywood Pole Screen, Connecticut, Circa 1760

Joe Kindig Antiques advertisement, Magazine Antiques, (September 2005).

Retaining its original needlework and an old finish, this Cherrywood pole screen is virtually identical to one at Winterthur Museum of Cherrywood and also with a screw-threaded pole, bulbous pillar, and plain cabriole legs with pad feet (see Nancy Richards and Nancy Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur (Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 291, no. 153. Another fire screen of this type has a history of ownership in the family of William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), president of King’s College (now Columbia University) in New York. It is in the collection of the Chipstone Foundation and is illustrated in Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), pp. 416-417, no. 195. Another sold in These Rooms, Important Americana from the Collection of the Late Thomas Mellon and Betty Evans, June 19, 1998, lot 2120. One other fire screen of this form displaying a figured mahogany screen are illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 4, (Washington, DC: Highland House Publishers, Inc.), p. 945, no. P3689.