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Polychrome-Paint-Decorated Poplar Chest with Two Drawers, Case by Jacob Reichner, Decorated by the Bieber family, Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Dated 1789

Auction Closed

January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Polychrome-Paint-Decorated Poplar Chest with Two Drawers

Case by Jacob Reichner, Decorated by the Bieber family

Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Dated 1789


Inscribed on front Catharina Reichner1789 and the back and bottom of the righthand drawer in till Jacob Reichner 1788 Oley. Interior of the lid retains a earlier 19th century fraktur of Adam and Eve and the tree of temptation flanked by two exotic birds and tulips. There are remnants of the other fraktur, though the majority is lost. Feet and one cleat on top replaced.

Height 28¾ in. by Width 49 in. by Depth 22¾ in.

Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Period Antiques & Accessories, January 16, 2010, lot 837;
Paul and Rita Flack, Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania;
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Flack, October 27, 2012, lot 105.
Richard L. T. Orth, The Early Decorated Furniture of the Pennsylvania Dutch: 18th-Century Bieber Family of Craftsmen & Other Folk Artists, (Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2019), p. 23.