A SCROLLED FIVE-TIER HANGING CORNER SHELF

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A SCROLLED FIVE-TIER HANGING CORNER SHELF
PENNSYLVANIA, 19TH CENTURY

Centering five graduated quarter-fan shelves flanked on each side by scrolling serpentine support on a shaped pendant base--51in. high
Provenance
Henry Francis du Pont, Chestertown, Southampton, New York
Thomas K. Pepper, February 22, 1992

Lot Essay

A similar graduated and scrolled five-tiered shelf is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is illustrated in in Kauffman, Pennsylvania Dutch, p. 57. A related ungraduated shelf is in the Titus C. Geesey Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and is illustrated in Garvan, p. 54, fig. 6.