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THBImportant Trask Family Pilgrim Century Oak and Walnut Chest with Drawer
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
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About Auction
LiveMar 12, 2025
Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
attributed to the Symonds Shop, probably James Symonds, Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1690, oak, maple and walnut, interior with lidded till, paneled back and sides, single side-hung drawer, 29-1/2 x 47-1/4 x 21-1/2 in.
Exhibited: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1870 and 1912-after 1968 (loan no. 931.12)
Literature (per the Sotheby's catalog entry):
William Blake Trask(e), "Captian William Traske and Some of His Decendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. LV (July 1901), pp. 321-338;
Benno M. Forman, The Seventeenth Century Case Furniture of Essex County, Massachusetts and Its Makers, (Newark, DE: MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1968), pp. 108-110, cat. III;
Benno M. Forman, "The Osborne Family Chest Re-Discovered," Historical New Hampshire 26, no. 1 (Spring 1971): 27–30, fig 2.;
Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 10, p. 2544, P6264;
Christie's New York, The Joseph and Bathsheba Pope Valuables Cabinet, January 21, 2000, sale 9426, p. 21. The chest is discussed but not illustrated;
Willoughby, Martha H. "Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops and Their Customers." American Furniture, (Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 2000), p. 171-2, 175, figs. 5 and 6;
Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement, Magazine Antiques, (May 2001), inside front cover.Provenance: Provenance per the Sotheby's catalog entry:
William Trask II (1640-1691) or his son, John Trask (1678-1737), both of Salem Village (now Danvers);
William Trask III (1702-1748), son of John;
William Trask IV (1744-1806), son;
Martha (Trask) Bullock (1777-1866), daughter;
Isaac Bullock (1800-1870), son;
William Blake Trask (1812-1906), first cousin;
New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts;
Sotheby's New York, Important Americana, January 25, 1990, sale 5968, lot 1243;
Israel Sack In., New York;
Sotheby's New York, Selections from Israel Sack, inc., January 20. 2002, sale 7761, lot 1380;Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2011 lot 225;
Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
- Provenance
Provenance per the Sotheby's catalog entry:
William Trask II (1640-1691) or his son, John Trask (1678-1737), both of Salem Village (now Danvers);
William Trask III (1702-1748), son of John;
William Trask IV (1744-1806), son;
Martha (Trask) Bullock (1777-1866), daughter;
Isaac Bullock (1800-1870), son;
William Blake Trask (1812-1906), first cousin;
New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts;
Sotheby's New York, Important Americana, January 25, 1990, sale 5968, lot 1243;
Israel Sack In., New York;
Sotheby's New York, Selections from Israel Sack, inc., January 20. 2002, sale 7761, lot 1380;Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2011 lot 225;
Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
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- Condition
very good overall, original top with typical minor warping and stains, two bottom boards of chest compartment replaced and chest compartment with later vertical wooden divider. Patched mouse hole in back. Proper left knob replaced, retains original applied turnings, scattered restorations to applied moldings, slight loss of height (formerly fitted with casters)
