The Moderne Gallery of Philadelphia is exhibiting at Design Miami and the gallery is including Daniel Jackson's (October 18, 1938- August 3, 1995) "Rocking Unicorn" in their booth. I wrote about the rocker a year ago here. It had recently arrived at the Moderne Gallery, coincidentally, from an estate in Florida. At the gallery, … Continue reading Jackson in Miami
Furniture
Dealing with Drawers
In January 2009, Christie’s, New York, sold a small spice box described in their catalogue as a Chippendale Walnut Spice Cabinet, Probably Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1740-1780. Christie’s was not familiar with aspects of design and construction that could be found in work documented to John Head’s shop and missed an opportunity to attribute the spice … Continue reading Dealing with Drawers
Boxes in Boxes
John Head and his journeymen and apprentices knew how to make boxes. They made scores and scores of boxes; carcases of chest on chests, high chests and dressing tables, spice boxes, desks, 4-tier chests of drawers, and the drawers they contained. Hundreds of "boxes" were produced by joiners in the Head shop from the end … Continue reading Boxes in Boxes
A Chest-on-Stand
On April 25, 2018 Freeman’s sold a black walnut chest-on-stand with a provenance in the Moon family of Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. For the third time in a year and a half, Freeman’s, had offered at auction a previously unpublished furniture form made in the Delaware River Valley in the first quarter of the eighteenth … Continue reading A Chest-on-Stand
Antique of the Day
I want to thank my colleagues at The Magazine Antiques for highlighting this blog when featuring the spice box sold at Freeman’s last December in their #antiqueoftheday Instagram feed! I also want to make one correction – I am not the one treating the spice box, that project is being carried out by another, very … Continue reading Antique of the Day
In Proportion to the Trouble 