In January we had the opportunity to examine a c. 1715 Delaware River Valley dressing table at Christie's. Furniture historians have been aware of this table since the publication of Wallace Nutting's Furniture of the Pilgrim Century 1620-1720 in 1921. It was subsequently illustrated as plate 394 in Nutting's Furniture Treasury, at the time in the … Continue reading “A Table to Suit”
Furniture
Tea Table Pairs Again
A comment to this site asked that I reference the locations of the possible pairs of tea tables I illustrated here. I do that here and include links and books that illustrate them. On the left: Sold January, 2015, Keno Auctions, New York seen here. On the right: Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art … Continue reading Tea Table Pairs Again
More From New York
A chest-on-chest in the Americana sale at Christie’s last week, seen here, has a single shell-carved drawer in the top tier that is a bit of a twist on the common practice of having the grasses on the sides of the shell carved separately and applied to the face of the drawer. On this drawer, … Continue reading More From New York
The Potts Family High Chest
The two previous posts illustrated images of the restored elements of Potts family high chest. Below are two images of original carving on the lower rail, legs, corner columns, and the shell drawer (the applied grasses on the drawer are Jesse Bair restorations). Soon after the the high chest was purchased by the Schorsch's in … Continue reading The Potts Family High Chest
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In Proportion to the Trouble 