THE MARY ORNE DIMAN QUEEN ANNE WALNUT-VENEERED HIGH CHEST AND MATCHING DRESSING TABLE

Lot 365
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Lot 365 | THE MARY ORNE DIMAN QUEEN ANNE WALNUT-VENEERED HIGH CHEST AND MATCHING DRESSING TABLE
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
THE MARY ORNE DIMAN QUEEN ANNE WALNUT-VENEERED HIGH CHEST AND MATCHING DRESSING TABLE

SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, 1740-1750

appear to retain original brasses, all marked EH on reverse; a drawer in the dressing table with paper label hand-inscribed in ink believed to be by Cornelia Wentworth Green (1865-1943; sister of Frederick Green) This lowboy belonged to Mary Orne of Salem who married Rev. James Diman. Their daughter Lois Diman married Bernard Green of Malden. Their son James Diman Green married Sarah Adeline Durrell of Dover, N.H. Their son Nicholas St. John Green married Cornelia Henshaw and they were the parents of Frederick Green; the high chest with label of Cambridge, Massachusetts antiques dealer, Lee L. Powers

high chest: 82 1⁄4 in. high, 39 1⁄2 in. wide, 22 1⁄4 in. deep; dressing table: 31 in. high, 34 in. wide, 21 3⁄4 in. deep







Provenance

Mary (Orne) Diman (1721-1787), Salem, Massachusetts

Lois (Diman) Green (1758-1839), Salem and Cambridge, Massachusetts, daughter

Rev. James Diman Green (1798-1882), Malden and Cambridge, Massachusetts, son

Possibly Nicholas St. John Green (1830-1876), Cambridge, son

Possibly Frederick Green (1868-1956), Cambridge and Urbana, Illinois, son

Probably Louis Adams Little (1914-2012) and his wife, Mildred, Ashburnham and Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1978

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 27-29 April 1978, lot 1044





Literature

Alexandra W. Rollins, “Furniture in the Collection of the Dietrich American Foundation,” The Magazine Antiques (May 1984), pp. 1118-1119, pls. XXI, XXII.

Brock Jobe and Myrna Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston, 1984), p. 190.

Brock Jobe, catalogue entry, in Gary Sullivan, Brock Jobe and Jack O'Brien, Harbor & Home, Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 (Hanover, 2009), p. 420 (entry 80, fn. 4) (referenced).





Exhibited

Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987-2021.





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