Property from the Collection of Vance Peacock and Darren Bryenton, Savannah, Georgia
A Pilgrim Century Paint-Decorated Chest with Drawers, probably Milford, Connecticut, circa 1730
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January 25, 09:22 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
poplar
height 36 in. by width 38 ¼ in. by depth 19 ¾ in.
bootjack ends and base molding replaced
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John Walton, Griswold, Connecticut;
Helen and Steven Kellogg, Sandy Hook, Connecticut;
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Helen and Steven Kellogg Collection, August 6, 2011, lot 643.
John Walton advertisement, Maine Antique Digest, May 1984, p. 39D;
Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, “Living with Antiques: A Lakeside Retreat,” Magazine Antiques (January 2008), p. 176, fig. 5.
This chest is one of approximately nine known related board chests. They include examples at the: Colonel Ashley House, Ashley Falls, Massachusetts; Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut (acc. no. 1962.2.2); Museum of Darien, Darien Connecticut; Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts (acc. no. 1883.54.01); Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 34.128); John T. Kirk, Connecticut Furniture: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, (Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1967), no. 49; Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana: The Bertram K Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Part I, January 29, 1994, lot 291; and an unpublished example in private collection.
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