SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1800-1815

This looking glass was purchased by the pioneer collector Charles Krum Davis (1889-1968) from Israel Sack, Inc. in the 1930s. Davis was a colleague and friend of Henry Francis du Pont and formed one of the most important private collections of early Americana (The Magazine Antiques (January 1941), pp. 18-21 and (March 1941), pp. 126-128; Wendy A. Cooper, "H. F. du Pont's fondness for furniture: A collecting odyssey," The Magazine Antiques (January 2002), pp. 162-163; Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. V, p. 1312). For a chamber table owned by Davis, see lot 1 in this sale.