The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection

The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection

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A Chippendale Mahogany Serpentine-Front and Side Dressing Chest of Drawers, Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1790

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Chippendale Mahogany Serpentine-Front and Side Dressing Chest of Drawers

probably Salem, Massachusetts

circa 1790


with dressing slide and adjustable looking glass.


35 x 44 x 23 in. (88.9 x 111.8 x 58.4 cm.)

Property from a New England family

Christie's, New York, Highly Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 20, 1990, sale 7000, lot 718

Wolf Family Collection No. 1000 (acquired from the above)

Morrison H. Heckscher, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, New York, 1992, pp. 144-5, fig. 94

Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles, 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals, Lita Solis-Cohen ed., Philadelphia, 2004, p. 203

Dean T. Lahikainen, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, Salem, Massachusetts, 2007, pp. 64-67, figs. 3-21, 3-23, 3-27

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Rococo: Eighteenth Century Elegance in Ornament, January 22-May 17, 1992