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Lot Essay
Called the Embroidery Artist because of the similarity between his painting patterns and the needlework of the period, the anonymous decorator of this chest worked around Lancaster for about twenty years.
The central heart motif on this chest is very similar to two examples, one in Monroe H. Fabian, The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest (New York, 1978), p. 151, fig. 128 and another in Gerald W.R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, 1988), pp. 116-117, cat. no. 46. Fabian suggests that the heart motif was most commonly found in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. A third related example was sold Christie's New York, The Collection of Jean and Kenneth Chorley, January 25, 1993, lot 225.
The central heart motif on this chest is very similar to two examples, one in Monroe H. Fabian, The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest (New York, 1978), p. 151, fig. 128 and another in Gerald W.R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, 1988), pp. 116-117, cat. no. 46. Fabian suggests that the heart motif was most commonly found in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. A third related example was sold Christie's New York, The Collection of Jean and Kenneth Chorley, January 25, 1993, lot 225.