ID 883877
Lot 419 | THE ELLERY-VERNON FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BEDSTEAD
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
NEWPORT, 1770-1790
Gilt finials probably additions, early 19th century
Approximately 84 1/2 in. high, 57 3/4 in. wide, 76 1/2 in. deep
Provenance
Possible line of descent:
Elizabeth “Betsey” Almy Ellery (1764-1857) and her husband, Samuel Vernon (1757-1834)
Samuel Brown Vernon (1802-1858), son
Joseph Peace Vernon (1831-1908), son
Feroline Salung (Angier) Vernon (1853-1942), widow
Miss Mary Edith Powel (1846-1931), Newport, by purchase from above
Hope Knight Hodgman (1889-1974) (wife of Thomas Ives Hare Powel (1887-1939), nephew of the above), by purchase from the estate of the above, 1946
Lieutenant and Mrs. Richard G. Alexander, son-in-law and daughter, by 1953
Thence by descent in the family
Literature
“Articles of Interest Offered for Sale, Auction to be Held at Residence of Late Miss Powel,” Newport Mercury, 17 July 1931, p. 2.
Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport Rhode Island 1640-1820 (Newport, 1954), p. 29, no. 3.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF984.
Exhibited
Newport, The Hunter House, The Preservation Society of Newport County, The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1820, Summer 1953.
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Beds |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Beds |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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