ID 1122116
Lot 500 | THE HALL FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP BLOCK-FRONT CHEST-ON-CHEST
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 90 000
POSSIBLY BENJAMIN FROTHINGHAM, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1770
89 ½ in. high, 42 in. wide, 24 ¼ in. deep
Provenance
The Benjamin Hall Family
Hepsibah Jones, Medford, Massachusetts
Israel Sack Inc., New York;
Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore, Washington, DC
Sotheby's, New York, 26, September 26 2008, lot 40
Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2013, lot 537
Literature
Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), p. 117 as a "masterpiece".
Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, pp. 2188-9 as “Massachusetts Masterpiece attributed to Benjamin Frothingham".
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Chests, Dressers & Chests of drawers |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Chests, Dressers & Chests of drawers |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
| Address of auction |
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