$106,650
Tiger Maple and Walnut Compass Inlaid Spice Box, probably Chester County, Pennsylvania, c. 1750-70, the central compass design in walnut, red cedar, locust, and holly stringing with corner berry motifs centering the initials "DH," and framed by double herringbone borders of red cedar and locust, the door opens to an interior of ten tiger maple drawers centering a single walnut drawer, all with brass knobs, old surface, (minor imperfections), ht. 21 7/8, cornice wd. 18 1/4, cornice dp. 12 1/4 in. Literature: Lee Ellen Griffiths, The Pennsylvania Spice Box: Paneled Drawers and Secret Doors, Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1986, plate 44, shows a stylistically similar example. secondary woods walnut and possibly chestnut; loss to beading at left side of door missing, some stringing in door warped.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
