Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
A George II Walnut and Parcel-Gilt Looking Glass, circa 1745
No reserve
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A George II Walnut and Parcel-Gilt Looking Glass
circa 1745
phoenix likely replaced
78 x 30½ in. (198.1 x 77.5 cm.)
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buck, Hartford, Connecticut
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Notable Americana, May 10, 1974, sale 368, lot 472
Wolf Family Collection No. 0006 (acquired from the above)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Notable Americana, May 10, 1974, sale 368, lot 472
Wolf Family Collection No. 0006 (acquired from the above)
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, vol. 2, Boston, 1928, no. 2914, illustrated
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Tercentenary: Three Centuries of Connecticut Furniture, 1635-1935, June 15-October 13, 1935 (item no. 222, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Buck, Hartford)