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THE POMEROY FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

Lot 586
24.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 50 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1362321
Lot 586 | THE POMEROY FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 100 000
THE POMEROY FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
COLCHESTER AREA, PROBABLY HEBRON, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1780
side of uppermost central drawer incised Pomeroy
81 in. high, 39 in. wide, 20 ¼ in. deep




Provenance

Presumed line of descent:
Hannah (Pomeroy) McClure (1751-1814), Hebron and East (later South) Windsor, Connecticut, circa 1780
Abigail Wheelock (McClure) Tudor (1781-1853), South Windsor, daughter
David McClure Tudor (b. 1805), New London, Connecticut, son
Louisa Green (Tudor) Starr (1844-1881), New London, daughter
Mary Seabury (Starr) Lampson (1870-1925), Waterbury, Connecticut, daughter
Thence by descent in Hartford, Connecticut
Private Collection, Hartford, 1970s-1995
Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, Connecticut, 1995-1996



Literature

William Lamson Warren, 'The Pomeroy High Chest of Drawers: An Exercise in Attribution,' The Connecticut Antiquarian, vol. 32 (June 1980), pp. 4-9, fig. 1.
Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (November 1995), p. 577.
J. T. Busch, 'Americana in Minnesota', Antiques & Fine Art (Autumn/Winter 2005), p. 177.
Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 (Hanover, New Hampshire, 2005), pp. 266-267, cat. 120c.
Medium:Cherry wood, Wood
Art style:Queen Anne (1702-1714)
Place of origin:Connecticut
Category:Chests, Services
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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