THE SMITH-CALDWELL FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

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$ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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USA, New York
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Lot 511 | THE SMITH-CALDWELL FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
THE SMITH-CALDWELL FAMILY CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

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
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