C.L. Prickett 2010

C. L. PRICKETT Fine Authenticated American Antiques

Specializing in the Àner examples of 18th and early 19th century American Antiques

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Clarence, Craig and Todd Prickett Currently in our forty-eighth year, we are nationally recognized as one of the leading dealers in the 多ner examples of 18th and early 19th century American furniture, tall case clocks, and other related items.

An emphasis is placed on excellence of form and the accurate representation of every item through the use of thorough condition reports, authentications and complete guarantees.

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THE AMES FAMILY BLOCK-FRONT DESK From the workshop of Nathaniel Gould

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1780

Exceptional Chippendale Mahogany Block-Front Desk having a blocked lid carved from a solid piece of wood, nicely executed stepped down interior with three fans, a center prospect door and document drawers, four blocked and graduated long drawers, original brasses, beautiful shell carved drop pendant, ball and claw feet with bold return blocks and retaining a ¿ne mellow patina.

From the workshop of Nathaniel Gould.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1780.

Width 42", depth 20½", height 43¼", writing height 31½".

Reference: “The Magazine Antiques”, August 1985, page 156 and July 1988, page 19.

Provenance: Descended in the family of Captain John Ames of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; C. L. Prickett Antiques, 1988.

Item 5057

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Fine Chippendale Carved Mahogany Lowboy having a molded top with notched corners, one over three overlapping drawers, the center of which is embellished with shell and streamer carvings, Àuted quarter columns, a nicely shaped apron, centered by a carved shell, continuing to carved knee returns and cabriole legs with acanthus carved knees ending in ball and claw feet.

Philadelphia, circa 1765.

Width 34¼" (30Ǭ" x 18Ǫ" @ case), depth 21", height 28¾"

Item 4936 Chippendale Mahogany and Gilt Looking Glass having a carved and gilded phoenix silhouetted in the crest, original beveled glass, gilded inside mirror border and nicely executed scroll-work throughout.

Completely original!

Original glass behind one currently visible.

Possibly New England, circa 1785.

Size: 52¼" x 25¾"

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Item 5058

The Dawes-Morris Family Chippendale Side Chairs

Rare and Outstanding Set of Six Chippendale Walnut Side Chairs each having a serpentine crest centered by a carved shell over a pierced vase-form splat, molded seat rail with original slip frame, a front seat rail centered by a carved shell continuing to cabriole legs with shell carved knees ending in ball and claw feet and retaining a 多ne old surface and mellow patina.

In an incredible state of preservation with each chair retaining its original slip seat frame and all of its original knee returns and interior glue blocks.

Philadelphia, circa 1760.

Heights: 39"

Provenance: The chairs were originally owned by James Morris, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker and merchant, and his wife Elizabeth (Dawes) at Dawes多eld, in Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania, and have descended directly through maternal lines of their family on the same tract of family land until the present time.

Item 5029

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Outstanding Pair of Queen Anne Walnut Compass Seat Side Chairs Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1740–1750

Each chair having a voluted shell centering the crest over vase-form splats Àanked by conforming stiles continuing to a shaped seat on cabriole front legs with shell carved knees and ball and claw feet joined by block and turned stretchers.

Completely original!

Ht. 38½", wd. 22", dp. 21½".

Provenance: Descended in the Deblois and Wesson families, Boston, Mass.

Fine Chippendale Figured Mahogany Block-Front Chest of Drawers having a molded top shaped to follow the rounded block contour of the front over four graduated drawers and straight bracket feet centered by a dropped pendant.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1770.

Width 35½" (33" at case), depth 21½", height 31".

Provenance: Israel Sack, Inc., New York; Mr. and Mrs. William T. Earls.

Item 4981

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Fine Chippendale Figured Mahogany Reverse-Serpentine Front Bonnet-Top Secretarial Desk

A classic example having a broken arch top with enclosed bonnet, original pinwheel rosettes, original turned and carved spiral ¿nials, a carved sunburst centering the scrollboard, two paneled doors with scalloped inside borders and Àuted pilasters, candle slides, a blocked and three fan carved interior with central bank of drawers Àanked by document drawers and pigeon holes, a nicely shaped lower case with four graduated drawers, beaded drawer dividers and ogee bracket feet centered by a carved dropped pendant.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1770.

Height 89¾" (7'5¾"), width 42½", depth 22".

Provenance: Gift from Mrs. Russell Sage to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909.

Literature: Colonial Furniture In America by Luke Vincant Lockwood, page 266, plate 288; American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pages 275 & 276, item 188.

Item 4958

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Outstanding Queen Anne Mahogany Bonnet-Top Highboy having a broken arch top with an enclosed bonnet, turned and carved spiral ¿nials, blocked fan carved drawers centering the upper and lower cases incorporated in three over four drawers in the upper case and one over three drawers in the base, original pine tree brasses, beaded drawer surrounds throughout, all above a blocked apron with turned drops and continuing to cabriole legs ending in pad feet.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1750.

Width 41", depth 21½", height 87½" (7'3½").

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Item 4947

Robert Street (1796–1865) Portrait of Mrs. Bowie and Son Signed and dated Robert Street, 1836.

Oil on canvas.

30½" x 25.

Item 4921 Fine Queen Anne Walnut and Maple Wing Chair having a serpentine crest Áanked by shaped wings continuing to vertically scrolled arms and cabriole legs ending in platformed pad feet joined by block-and-ring turned stretchers.

Completely original!

Massachusetts, circa 1750.

Height: 45¾", width @ arms 35½".

Chippendale Mahogany Candlestand having a beautifully Àgured one board dished top on a birdcage support, a nicely executed urn turned standard, cabriole legs ending in pad feet and retaining a Àne old Ànish and original Ànish on underside of top.

Completely original!

Philadelphia, circa 1780.

Top size: 22¾” x 21”, height 28¼”.

Item 5028

Reference: For a nearly identical chair refer to New England Furniture at Williamsburg, No. 66 and The Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition, No. 567.

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Rare and Outstanding Chippendale Mahogany Block-Front Chest of Drawers having a molded top shaped to follow the contour of the base over four graduated blocked drawers all on ball and claw feet centered by a dropped pendant.

Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770.

Width 38½" (36" at the case), depth 21¾", height 32½".

Literature: American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, Vol. VIII, page 2096.

Item 4948

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Outstanding Chippendale Mahogany and Gilt Looking Glass having a phoenix silhouetted in the crest, a gilded inside mirror border and beautifully executed scrollwork throughout.

In an outstanding state of preservation being all original and retaining a beautiful old and possibly original ¿nish.

Circa 1775.

Height 41½", width 25".

Item 4764

Outstanding Pair of Philadelphia Side Chairs

Outstanding Pair of Chippendale Mahogany Side Chairs each having a serpentine crest with a cabochon carved cartouche and chip-carved knuckle ears, pierced vase-form splat with carved volutes, Àuted stiles, molded seat rail, original slip seat frame, a carved shell centering the apron, cabriole legs with shell carved knees ending in ball and claw feet, and retaining a ¿ne mellow patina.

Philadelphia, circa 1770.

Height 40", seat rail height 16¾".

Provenance: The Matson-Clayton-Osbourne-Ross families; all of Chester Heights and Boothwyn areas of southern Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Item 5025

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Benjamin Frothingham, Jr. (1734–1809) Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts Fine Chippendale Carved Walnut Block-Front Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest attributed to Benjamin Frothingham, Jr. (1734-1809) of Charlestown having a broken arch top, original cork-screw and urn-turned ¿nials, above three short drawers, the center with a carved shell, over four graduated long drawers, all Àanked by Àuted pilasters, original brasses; all over a lower case with four long blocked and graduated drawers and straight bracket feet centered by a dropped pendant.

Retains an outstanding old mellow patina.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1780.

Height 89¼”, width 40½”, depth 21½”.

Provenance: Ex-collection of Tom Devenish, New York.

Item 5038

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EDWARD REDFIELD (1869–1965) “Lobsterman’s Cove, 1948” Signed E. W. Red¿eld, l.r.

Oil on canvas Literature: The Red¿eld Letters, Vol. 2 by J.M.W. Fletcher, page 403, pl. 285; Edward Williis Red¿eld, 1869–1965, An American Impressionist, by J.M.W. Fletcher, page(s) 65, 149, 168.

26¼" x 32¼" (31½" x 37½" overall)

Item 4803

Rare and Outstanding Chippendale Carved and Figured Mahogany Games Table having a hinged top with turreted corners opening to a baize-lined playing surface with candle pockets, gadrooned apron continuing to acanthus carved cabriole legs with C-scrolled front knee returns and ball and claw feet.

Completely original!

New York, circa 1765.

Width 33Ǫ", depth 16½", height 28Ǭ".

Literature: This table is pictured in American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art II: Late Colonial Period, The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles,

by Morrison H. Heckscher, pages 173–74, cat. No. 104.

Item 4906

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THE APPLETON ROBBINS BONNET-TOP HIGHBOY Outstanding Queen Anne Carved Cherry Bonnet-Top Highboy of classic design and diminutive scale retaining a ¿ne old surface having a broken arch top with enclosed bonnet, fan carved central drawers in both the upper and lower cases, overlapping drawers, most of its original brasses and a beautifully shaped apron continuing to cabriole legs ending in platformed pad feet.

Farmington or Wethers¿eld, Connecticut, circa 1793.

Height 87½", width 37¼" (at lower case), depth 20¼".

Provenance: Leading Connecticut furniture scholar Thomas Kugelman believes this highboy dates from the 1793 wedding of Appleton Robbins of Wethers¿eld and Chloe Curtis of Farmington. Since such high chests were often paid for by the bride’s father it could well have been made in Farmington rather than Wethers¿eld.

They were adjacent towns back then.

Probable line of decent: Appleton Robbins (1764–1850) and Chloe Curtis (1772–1849) in 1793; to their daughter Catherine Robbins Hillyer (1801–1890); to her son Appleton Robbins Hillyer (1833–1915), to his daughter Mary Bushnell Hillyer Seaverns (1880–1947); to her son Appleton Hillyer Seaverns (1916–2007).

Item 5013

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Rare Chippendale Walnut Child’s Tall Case of Drawers having three over two over four overlapping drawers, original bail and rosette brasses, chamfered corners and ogee bracket feet.

Pennsylvania, circa 1785.

Width 22" (20½" at the case), depth 13¾" (13" at the case), height 25½".

Queen Anne Walnut Balloon Seat Side Chair having a voluted shell centering the double arched crest rail above a vase-form splat over a compass shaped slip-seat, and block and turned “H” stretchers joining cabriole legs ending in pad feet.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1750.

Height 40½"

Item 5032

Item 5018

Outstanding Chippendale Carved Walnut Reverse-Serpentine Chest of Drawers having a molded top shaped to follow the contour of the case, four graduated long drawers below with beaded drawer surrounds, nicely executed ball and claw feet centered by a carved dropped pendant, and retaining a ¿ne old ¿nish and choice golden patina.

Massachusetts, circa 1770.

Width 38½" (36ǩ" @ case), depth 21Ǫ", height 33”.

Item 4912

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“View of Passamaquoddy Bay”

by Victor DeGrailly (1804–1889) Oil on canvas Mid-19th century 17" x 23½" (20¼" x 26½" overall)

Item 4815

Fine Queen Anne Cherry Lowboy having a molded top above one over three drawers, the center of which with a carved shell, above a blocked apron with turned drops continuing to cabriole legs ending in pad feet.

Wethers¿eld, Connecticut, circa 1750.

Width 33½" (29ǫ" @ case), depth 20ǫ", height 30¾".

Provenance: Israel Sack, 1931 Item 4661

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Fine Chippendale Carved Cherry Bonnet-Top Chest-on-Chest Having a broken arch top centered by a shaped plinth surmounted by a Àame and urn-turned ¿nial Àanked by two similarly turned ¿nials on Àuted plinths, above three short drawers, the center with a carved fan, over four graduated long drawers, all Àanked by Àuted pilasters headed by pulvinated capitals, original brasses; all over a lower case with four long graduated drawers, and straight bracket feet.

In an outstanding state of preservation being completely original and retaining a ¿ne old surface and mellow patina.

Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1780.

Height 84", width 41½", depth 22¼".

Provenance: According to family tradition: Abigail Howe Thompson; Aroline Thompson Hunt; Nina Hunt Fenno; Mildred Fenno Kepler; Pauline Kepler Stone.

Reference: A nearly identical chest-on-chest is part of the collection at Winterthur and is pictured in New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Richards and Evans, ¿g. 194, and also in American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods by Joseph Downs, no. 182.

Item 4896

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THE BEST

Outstanding Hepplewhite Inlaid Mahogany Serpentine Front Sideboard attributed to William Whitehead having four drawers over four doors, each door with fan inlaid quadrants, tapered legs each with book-end, lily-of-the-valley paterae and graduated bellÀower inlays connected by loops and hedged by line inlays that terminate at inlaid cuffs.

New York, circa 1790.

Reference: For a nearly identical sideboard refer to Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, Vol. X, page 2577.

Height 40¼", width 72¾", depth 28½".

Outstanding Federal Mahogany Lolling Chair having a Àared back with a serpentine crest, molded arms and arm supports, a serpentince front seat rail and molded tapered legs.

All original.

Massachusetts, circa 1790.

Width 24", height 46¾".

Item 5009

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A Federal Masterpiece

Outstanding Federal Inlaid Mahogany “D” Shaped Five-Legged Card Table having a hinged veneered top with ovolo corners and inset triple line inlay opening to a veneered stationary top, each with inlaid edging, above a beautifully inlaid apron with six oval panels of mahogany with double line tracers each set in a ¿eld of satinwood. The apron is centered by a pictorial inlay of an urn with Àowers and the stationary tapered legs each display an inlaid die of a Àower-head above three bellÀowers connected by loops and hedged by line inlays continuing down to cuff inlays.

New York, circa 1790–1805.

Width 35", depth 17", height 29".

Reference: A closely related table is illustrated and discussed in American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, item 108, pages 210–213.

Item 5039

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Outstanding Federal Inlaid Mahogany Breakfront Secretary having a shaped crown over four glass doors with shaped dividers over a base centered by a pullout writing desk over a drawer and a tambour cupboard Àanked by a drawer over a cupboard door all on tapered inlaid legs the center two ornamented with husk inlays.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1800–1815.

Height 94½", width 66¾", depth 20¼".

Provenance: Judge Livermore, Livermore Falls, Maine; purchased by J. Insley Blair, New Jersey, from Francis H. Bigelow, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 1925;

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Literature: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bulletin (August 1912), p. 29, no. 685; Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America (New York, 1926), vol. I, p. 201, no. 214; Fiske Kimball, “Salem Secretaries and Their Makers,” The Magazine Antiques (May 1933), pp. 168–170, ¿g. 7.

MATTHEW EGERTON New Brunswick, New Jersey, circa 1788–1802

The Liberty Cap has long been a symbol of freedom. On rare occasions it was incorporated into the inlay schemes of some ¿ner examples of Federal furniture.

Rare and Outstanding Federal Inlaid and Figured Mahogany Tall Case Clock having a broken arch top, brass ¿nials and its original carved and gilded “Àower” rosettes above a pierced scrollboard and bookend inlays under each outer ¿nial stand and a “liberty cap on a pole” inlay under the center ¿nial, an enameled dial with moon phase and date counter, eight day brass movement Àanked by Àuted colonettes above bookend inlays, an oval inlaid waist door with fan inlaid lower quadrants and Àanked by Àuted quarter columns, above a circle inlaid base with fan inlaid quadrants, original straight bracket feet, and retaining an outstanding old surface.

Case made by Matthew Egerton, New Brunswick, New Jersey, circa 1788–1802.

Height: 96¼".

Provenance: C. L. Prickett Antiques, 1980.

Literature: The Magazine Antiques, January 1980, page 143; The Magazine Antiques, October 1997, page 409 and C. L. Prickett’s 1998 catalogue, page 21.

Reference: For other related examples see: The Magazine Antiques, November 1928, page 418; American Antiques, Vol. V, page 1363; American Antiques, Vol. IX, page 2503; and The Magazine Antiques, March 1991, page 459.

Note: Of the ¿ve known Egerton cases of this type (having inlay, straight bracket feet, and punch-work scrollboards) this one is clearly the ¿nest example, blending a ¿ne compliment of fan and line inlays and outstanding proportions. The inlaid “liberty cap on a pole” adds a great deal of historical signi¿cance to this already rare and outstanding case.

Item 5024

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Federal Inlaid Mahogany Looking Glass having a conch-shell inlaid in the crest, a line inlaid mirror border and nicely executed scrollwork throughout.

Completely original!

New York, circa 1800.

Height 47¼", width 22½".

Item 4984

Outstanding Federal Eagle Inlaid Mahogany Card Table having a hinged top with a swelled front with half serpentine sides and patterned inlaid banding over a base that follows the contour of the top with a central panel with an inlaid rufÀed neck eagle Àanked by rectangular patterned inlay, nicely developed turned and reeded legs topped with an inlaid ¿fe & drum.

Massachusetts, probably Boston, circa 1800.

Width 35½", depth 17¼", height 29½".

Item 4983

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Fine Federal Inlaid Mahogany and Gilt Looking Glass having a gilded broken arch top, Àoral rosettes centered by an urn with wheat and lilies on wire stems above an oval inlaid die of a shell over a rectangular mirror with a gilded inside border Àanked by leafage on wires all over a scrolled base.

New York, circa 1800.

Height 45", width 17½".

Item 4933

Outstanding Federal Mahogany Lolling Chair having a serpentine crest, molded arms and arm supports and molded tapered legs joined by “H” stretchers.

All original.

Massachusetts, circa 1790.

Federal Inlaid Mahogany Candlestand having a hinged oval chevron-inlaid top tilting above a baluster and urn-form support on three down-swept line-inlaid legs ending in spade feet.

Width 25", height 43¼".

Item 5010

Completely original!

Massachusetts, circa 1800.

Height 29", top size: 14½" x 21½".

Item 5017

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Elnathan Taber, Roxbury

Fine Federal Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Clock inscribed on the dial E. Taber, Roxbury having a beautiful “Roxbury” case with original pierced fret, brass ¿nials and Àuted ¿nial stands above an enameled dial with a scene of Boston Harbor in the lunette, a date counter, and eight day brass movement, brass stopped Àuted colonettes and quarter columns, band inlaid waist door and base panel all on original French bracket feet.

In an outstanding state of preservation being all original except for a small repair to left fret. Also retains a ¿ne mellow patina.

The waist door retains an original label of operating instructions.

Roxbury, Massachusetts, circa 1800.

Height: 92¼" (7' 8¼").

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Item 4678

The Barque Mary Edson Attributed to Richard B. Spencer (British, Active 1840–1874) Oil on canvas Third quarter 19th century The ship identi¿ed on the pennant, an American Àag Àying from her peak, Dover harbor and Dover Castle off the English coast are shown under her bowsprit. The reverse of the canvas is stenciled “John Reeves Artists Colorman, 6 Whitehurst Tottenham Ct Road London”.

The Mary Edson was built in 1859 in Medford, Massachusetts, for the ¿rm of Ryder and Hardy.

20" x 30" (23¼" x 33¼" overall)

Item 4835

Fine Federal Flame-Birch Veneered and Inlaid Mahogany Bow-Front Chest of Drawers having a band inlaid top shaped to follow the contour of the front above four drawers each cock-beaded and veneered with oval Àame-birch central panels surrounded by quartered mahogany and Àanked by rectangular Àame birch panels surrounded by mahogany cross-banding, oval brasses, which are possibly original, stamped H.J. (for Hand & Jenkins) all over a Àame-birch oval inlaid apron continuing to French feet.

New Hampshire, probably Portsmouth, circa 1805–1815.

Width 42" (40ǫ" at case), depth 22½", height 39¼".

Provenance: Ex-collection Robert Vansant Literature: Illustrated in American Antiques of the Colonial Era by Luke Vincent Lockwood Item 4980

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Fine Hepplewhite Inlaid Mahogany Oval-Top Pembroke Table having a molded edge top, a single drawer, line inlay edged tapered legs with twelve point paterae above graduated bellÀowers all over applied mahogany cuffs above brass sleeves.

New York, circa 1790–1810.

Height 27¾", length 30", width (closed) 19½", (open) 36¾".

Literature: A nearly identical table is pictured in Furniture Treasury by Wallace Nutting, plate 1087.

Item 4873 Hepplewhite Inlaid Mahogany Oval-Top Pembroke Table having a line inlay inset from the edge of the top, line inlaid edging, a single drawer at one end and a simulated drawer at the other each with line inlaid edging, tapered legs each inlaid on two sides with bellÀower and pendant inlays hedged by line inlays continuing to inlaid cuffs.

Rhode Island, circa 1790–1810.

Height 27Ǫ", length 31¼", width (closed) 19½", (open) 37¼".

Item 4872

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Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1913) Unexpected Visitors Signed and dated E. L. Henry, 1909, l.l.

Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, 84th Annual Exhibition, March–April 1909, no. 5; Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum; Rochester, New York, The Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Paintings, 1840-1910, May–November 1986, no. 27, p. 77, illustrated in color.

Oil on canvas 17¼" x 25" (23½" x 31¼" overall).

Provenance: Mrs. George Arden, New York Item 4709 Literature: Elizabeth McCausland, M.A., The Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry, N.A. 1841–1919, Albany, New York, 1945, no. 355, p. 221.

Federal Inlaid Cherry Serpentine Front Sideboard of desirable small size having a central drawer over cupboard doors Àanked by cupboard doors with bellÀower and icycle inlaid tapered legs.

Completely original!

Rhode Island, circa 1790.

Length 60¼", height 38", depth 22½".

Item 5060

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Extremely Rare Chippendale Carved Mahogany Tall Post Tester Bedstead having Marlborough feet reeded and acanthus leaf carved foot posts, pencilled head posts, a straight tester canopy and its original canvas bedding support system.

Massachusetts, circa 1785.

Length 77½", width 57", height 87", mattress size 75" x 57".

Item 4907

Federal Carved and Inlaid Birch Canopy Bedstead having beautifully turned posts, reeded foot posts with inlaid Àame-birch panels, a nicely shaped headboard, an arched canopy and retaining a ¿ne old surface and mellow patina.

Massachusetts, circa 1790–1810.

Length 76½", width 56", height 76", mattress size 74" x 56".

Item 4938

Rare and Outstanding Federal Mahogany and Birch Tall Post Tester Bedstead having reeded and acanthus leaf carved foot posts, pencilled head posts, a nicely shaped headboard and a straight tester canopy.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1790–1810.

Length 78", width 54½", height 87½", mattress size 75" x 54".

Item 4916

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Fine Set of Six Federal Carved Mahogany Side Chairs each having a molded shield back containing vertical slats connected with carved drapery, rosettes and a central urn all over an overupholstered seat all on tapered molded legs ending in spade feet.

New York, circa 1790–1810.

Heights: 43".

Item 4965

Rare Federal Inlaid Cherry and Birch New England Swell Front Chest of Drawers having a line inlaid top shaped to follow the contour of the case, four line inlaid graduated drawers retaining their original pulls and escutcheons, beaded drawer surrounds on case, a shaped and carved dropped pendant centering ball and claw feet, and retaining a ¿ne old mellow patina and surface.

Completely original!

Concord, New Hampshire, circa 1800.

Width 36” (34” @ case), depth 22”, height 37¼”.

Literature: The twin to this chest was sold at auction, 12-1-79, lot #1688.

Item 4917

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Chippendale Walnut Dish-Top, Bird-Cage Candlestand having a reverse dished top, turned standard and cabriole legs with ball and claw feet, ¿ve claws surrounding the ball on the foot and retaining a ¿ne old ¿nish.

Completely original!

Chester County, Pennsylvania, circa 1750–1765.

Diameter of top 21", height 27".

Literature: Pictured in The Magazine Antiques, December 1980, page 1179.

Item 4893

Outstanding Chippendale Figured Walnut Tall Chest of Drawers having three over ¿ve overlapping drawers, original pine tree brasses, bold Àuted quarter columns, platformed ogee bracket feet and retaining a ¿ne old mellow patina.

Completely original!

Pennsylvania, circa 1780.

Height 76", width 45½" (42" @ case), depth 24" (22½" @ case).

Provenance: C. L. Prickett Antiques, June 1988.

Item 5063

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Outstanding Chippendale Walnut Schrank having a molded cornice over two double raised panel doors with original “H” hinges over a lower section with three drawers, each retaining their original brasses, all on straight bracket feet.

Pennsylvania, circa 1785.

Height 82", width at cornice 63½", width at upper case 56", width at feet 60", depth 26"

Item 4892

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Rare and Outstanding Red Gum Kas in two parts; having a beautifully sculptured cornice above two paneled doors with inset walnut veneers and six molding decorated vertical dividers with inset walnut veneers, above a base with one molding decorated long drawer, simulated to look like two, Àanked with diamond shaped moldings with walnut inset veneers; all on its original turned black painted feet.

In an outstanding state of preservation retaining a ¿ne old ¿nish and mellow patina and being all original except for some customary minor repairs.

Bergen County, New Jersey, circa 1775.

Width 74¾" at the cornice (60½" at the case), depth 27" at the cornice (19½" at the case), height 78¼".

Reference: “The Eighteenth-Century American Kast”, The Magazine Antiques, February 1991, pages 398–411.

A nearly identical kas appears on page 409 of this article.

Item 4914

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Fine Chippendale Cherry and Birch Tall Case Clock inscribed “Jacob Diehl, Reading” having a broken arch top with dentil-work scrolls, carved rosettes, original turned ¿nials; a Àower, leaf and vine carved scroll-board with a punch-work ¿eld, enameled dial with moon phase, date counter and eight day brass movement, blind fret above a shaped waist door Àanked by Àuted quarter columns, a paneled base below also Àanked by Àuted quarter columns and original ogee bracket feet.

Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1800.

Height 7'11".

Literature: This clock is pictured in Pennsylvania Clockmakers, Watchmakers, and Allied Crafts by James B. Whisker, pages 172 and 173, ¿gures 35 and 36, and Berks County Tall Case Clocks, 1750–1850, pages 41, 84 and 85, an exhibition by the Historical Society of Berks County, September 16, 1995 thru March 16, 1996.

Item 4241

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Set of Six Queen Anne Red-Brown Painted Side Chairs each having a yoke crestrail above a solid vase-shaped splat Àanked by ring-and baluster turned stiles with urn-turned ¿nials, above a rushed seat with exposed front corners, on round ring-turned front legs and baluster-turned front feet all joined by double baluster-turned box stretchers.

Connecticut, circa 1760.

Heights 43".

Item 4288

Outstanding Sawbuck Table having a beautiful two board top overhanging a base retaining its original red paint with mortised sawbuck ends joined by a center stretcher.

Completely original!

Pennsylvania, circa 1820.

Top size 61" x 32¾", height 29¼".

Item 4655

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Chippendale Walnut Tall Case Clock inscribed Samuel Breneisen, Reading having a broken arch top with carved rosettes and turned ¿nials, an enameled dial bearing the inscription of the maker, a moon phase dial, date dial, a seconds dial, and an eight day brass movement, Àanked by turned colonettes, above an arched waist door Àanked by Àuted quarter columns, above a shaped base panel Àanked by Àuted quarter columns all on its original ogee bracket feet.

Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, circa 1800.

Height 94¾" (7'10¾").

Item 4531

Outstanding Pennsylvania Decorated Blanket Chest attributed to the Leiby School of decoration having a lid and case painted with bold salmon and black swirls, above a stepped base with three drawers with similar vertical feathering and ebonized trim, retaining its original oval brasses, all on tall ogee bracket feet.

Completely original!

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, circa 1815.

Width 46", depth 22", height 30½".

Item 4674

A Molded Copper Black Hawk Running Horse Weathervane, a full bodied form with a molded head, mane, and tail.

Retaining a beautiful surface with traces of gold.

Attributed to J. W. Fiske and Company (active 1870–1893), New York.

Height 23", length 34".

Item 4702

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AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE The Cabot-Paine-Metcalf Bombé Desk-and Bookcase Workshop of Nathaniel Gould

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1780 In rarity of form, brilliance of overall design, wood selection, balance of proportion, maturity and quality of carving and joinery, this recently discovered bombé secretary is unparalleled and stands alone as the only know example of bombé furniture in the secretarial bookcase form to come from Salem, Massachusetts.

Height: 96¼"

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