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THBRare Massachusetts Pilgrim Century Paneled and Polychromed Lift Top Chest with Drawer
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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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
Newbury, Massachusetts area, dated 1701, hinged lid with open interior, paneled back and sides, paneled front with tartan polychroming, carved initials "IC" and date of "1701", 27 x 45 x 20-1/2 in.
Note: Examples from this well-documented and published group of important chests include examples at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (Acc. no. 37.91), the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the American Museum at Claverton Manor in Britain. Other notable examples include a related chest from the Vogel Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2019, 1073. For more on this and related Essex County chests, see Trent, Follansbee, and Miller, "First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop", in American Furniture, 2001, pgs. 1-64.
Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
- Provenance
Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
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- Condition
lid replaced and top edge of case has been cleaned, possible refreshing to paint decoration including at drawer facing, brasses replaced, some possible restorations to applied moldings and turnings, as is typical
