AMERICAN OR ENGLISH, 1760-1800

Details

A MAHOGANY BOTTLE CARRIER
American or English, 1760-1800
together with two nineteenth-century glass decanters
16½ in. high, 13 in. wide, 6¾ in. deep (3)

Provenance

Cornelius C. Moore (1885-1970), Newport, circa 1965
Sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Important American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, 30 October 1971, lot 50

Literature

Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture (Providence, 1965), pp. 130-131, cat. 86.

Exhibited

Providence, The John Brown House, The Rhode Island Historical Society, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, 16 May-20 June 1965.

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Lot Essay

Made entirely of mahogany, this bottle carrier is a rare survival of the form and may have been made in either England or America. As recorded by Joseph K. Ott in 1965, this carrier survived with a tradition of being used on the Providence to Boston stagecoach, information that was presumably conveyed to Ott by the carrier's previous owner, noted Newport collector, Cornelius C. Moore (1885-1970). Ott also commented on its "neat obvious dovetailing," as possible evidence of a Rhode Island origin (Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture (Providence, 1965), p. 130).

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