ID 1122268
Lot 511 | THE SMITH-CALDWELL FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE SHOP OF HENRY CLIFTON (C. 1725-1771) AND THOMAS CARTERET (ACT. 1753-1765), THE CARVING ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS BERNARD (1732-1789), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1755-65
inscribed AU (on backboard of upper case)
96 ½ in. high, 44 ½ in wide, 24 ¼ in deep
Provenance
Probably John Robertson Smith (1756-1817) and Hannah (Caldwell) Smith (1767-1823), Elizabethtown, New Jersey
James Caldwell Robertson Smith (1803-1837), son
Julia Halsey Smith (d. 1872), wife
Anna Caldwell Smith (born 1833), daughter
A. Pennington Whitehead (d. 1920), husband
Anna Caldwell Whitehead Duer, daughter
Mrs. Henry Breyer, 1974
Gifted to Philadelphia Museum of Art (object no. 1974-135-1), 1974
Sotheby’s, New York, 25-26 January 2013, lot 408
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Chests |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
| Medium: | Mahogany, Wood |
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| Art style: | Chippendale (1750-1780) |
| Category: | Chests |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
| Address of auction |
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