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THBVery Rare Early Massachusetts Slat Back Turned Great Chair
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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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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
Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1715-1730, Tinkham shop tradition, in maple and ash, the back with two incised decorated vertical slats, mushroom hand grips, rush seat, 45-1/2 x 24 x 18 in.
Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
Note: Illustrated in Trent and Goldstein, "New 'Tinkham' Chairs", American Furniture, 1998, figure 21. Also illustrated in "A Cubberd, Four Joyne Stools & Other Smalle Thinges: The Material Culture of Plymouth Colony", catalog number 134. The catalog notes "This is a very rare variant of the work of the Tinkham shop... The incised decoration is unlike anything seen before."
- Provenance
Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts
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- Condition
legs ended out approximately 5 in. and lower stretchers replaced, otherwise generally good, one mushroom pommel with hole in top, top inch of finials restored, old edge losses at one vertical slat, replaced rush seat in good condition, frame with other typical surface wear
