Sold for:
$37,920
$37,920
Massachusetts Chippendale cherry two-part secretary, ca. 1765 , attributed to the shop of Eliakim Smith (1735-1775), Hadley or Springfield, the bonnet top with two tombstone panel doors flanked by scroll carved pilasters, resting on a base with a fall front and blocked drawers supported by bracket feet, 93 1/2" h., 39" w. Illustrated in Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury , figure 697. A nearly identical secretary is illustrated in The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820 , catalog 106. Provenance: C. W. Lyon, New York, 1938.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2013-04-20
