PROBABLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1765

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD SPICE CABINET
PROBABLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1765
41 in. high, 17¼ in. wide, 11½ in. deep

來源

Collection of S. H. Du Pont
Walter Morrison Jeffords, Sr. (1883-1960), Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania
Walter Morrison Jeffords, Jr. (1915-1990), son
Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords (Kathleen McLaughlin) (d. 2003), wife
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, vol. II, 28-29 October 2004, lot 340

出版

David H. Stockwell, "The Spice Cabinet of Pennsylvania and New Jersey," Philadelphia Furniture & Its Makers, John Snyder, ed. (New York, 1975), p. 23, fig. 4.

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Combining rarity of form with pristine condition, this spice cabinet is an exceptional example of Pennsylvania cabinetmaking from the eighteenth century. The bonnet top, finials and rosettes emulate contemporaneous Philadelphia case pieces, but their inventive execution along with the idiosyncratic stop-fluting on the interior suggest that the maker was working outside the city. Another example with seemingly identical proportions, rosettes and feet but with a drawer in the tympanum and door with rectangular inset panel appears to be from the same shop (William MacPherson Hornor, Blue Book Philadelphia Furniture (1935), pl. 56). Very few other bonnet-top spice cabinets from Pennsylvania are known, and for three other examples see David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston, TX, 1975), p. 37, cat. 72; Sotheby's, New York, 28-31 January 1994, lot 1298 and 13 October 2000, lot 305.