The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Chippendale Mahogany Serpentine-Front and Side Dressing Chest of Drawers
probably Salem, Massachusetts
circa 1790
with dressing slide and adjustable looking glass.
35 x 44 x 23 in. (88.9 x 111.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Property from a New England family
Christie's, New York, Highly Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 20, 1990, sale 7000, lot 718
Wolf Family Collection No. 1000 (acquired from the above)
Morrison H. Heckscher, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, New York, 1992, pp. 144-5, fig. 94
Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles, 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals, Lita Solis-Cohen ed., Philadelphia, 2004, p. 203
Dean T. Lahikainen, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, Salem, Massachusetts, 2007, pp. 64-67, figs. 3-21, 3-23, 3-27
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Rococo: Eighteenth Century Elegance in Ornament, January 22-May 17, 1992