$12,300
Shaker Red-painted Pine Blanket Chest over Drawer, attributed to Brother Gilbert Avery, Mount Lebanon, New York, 1837, the hinged lift lid with rounded front and applied tongue and groove end moldings, opens to a well with lidded till and interior drawer, the dovetail-constructed box with inlaid escutcheons, the single drawer with beveled edge and turned wooden pulls, on a dovetailed bracket base, the backboard inscribed "Made April. 1837/Canaan," and with blue label "THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM/ANDREWS/#49," the pulls appear to be original, old surface, (minor imperfections), ht. 27 3/4, case wd. 40, case dp. 18 in. Provenance: Acquired by the Andrewses from the Second Family at Mount Lebanon in 1928. Literature: The Magazine Antiques , July 1928, p. 134; Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect , plate 19; Erwin Christensen, The Index of American Design (The MacMillan Company, New York, 1950), p. 23, plate 41; Shaker: Furniture and Objects from the Faith and Edward Deming Andrews Collections Commemorating the Bicentenary of the American Shakers , by A.D. Emmerich and A.H. Benning (Washington, DC: Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973), p. 55, plate 8; The Book of Shaker Furniture , by John Kassay (Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), pp. 112-13; Shaker: A Uniquely American Aesthetic , n.p.; Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture , p. 186; The Complete Book of Shaker Fu Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-06-15
