AN AMERICAN WALNUT BOOKCASE, in the Gothic revival style, with a pierced cresting and four crockets, above a pair of glazed panelled doors each with tracery and pierced quatrefoil arch, the lower part with a gadrooned edge, above a frieze drawer and a pair of cupboard doors, each with a blind quatrefoil panel, on shaped bracket feet | Christie's

Lot 117

117

AN AMERICAN WALNUT BOOKCASE, in the Gothic revival style, with a pierced cresting and four crockets, above a pair of glazed panelled doors each with tracery and pierced quatrefoil arch, the lower part with a gadrooned edge, above a frieze drawer and a pair of cupboard doors, each with a blind quatrefoil panel, on shaped bracket feet

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AN AMERICAN WALNUT BOOKCASE, in the Gothic revival style, with a pierced cresting and four crockets, above a pair of glazed panelled doors each with tracery and pierced quatrefoil arch, the lower part with a gadrooned edge, above a frieze drawer and a pair of cupboard doors, each with a blind quatrefoil panel, on shaped bracket feet
50½in. (128.5cm.) wide; 97in. (246.5cm) high; 17in. (43cm.) deep

Lot Essay

See Joseph T. Butler & Ray Skibinski, Field Guide to American Antique Furniture, New York, 1986, page 341, pl. 2. for a piece by J. & J. W. Meeks, New York.

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