Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
Americana: Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export Art and Prints
PROPERTY FROM THE WOLF FAMILY COLLECTION
A George III Overmantel Mirror, Circa 1801
Lot Closed
January 20, 06:43 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gilt-decorated and painted pine
Height 30 1/2 in. by Width 64 in.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please make an appointment with the Americana department at 212-606-7130.
National Art Galleries, Inc., American Furniture, the Collections of King Hooper, Inc., Hyman Kaufman & Herbert Lawton, December 3-5, 1931, lot 478
Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York
Christie's, New York, Property from the Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, January 21, 2006, sale 1618, lot 572
Wolf Family Collection No. 1257 (acquired from the above)
Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley, The Wood Carver of Salem: Samuel McIntire: His Life and Work, Boston, 1916, pl. CIII, CIV, pp. 127-8
A similar overmantel mirror hung in the Pierce Nichols House in Salem, Massachusetts and is pictured in Edgar G. Miller, Jr., American Antique Furniture, pl. 1231, p. 673. Wood samples from the reverse side were sent to Harry Alden for testing and determined to be red pine.