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Vander Sande Collection | Session I | March 12, 2025

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Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms.
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Lot 656

English Delft Blue and White Dated and Initialed Plate

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Starting Bid
$1,000

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bands of scrollwork centering inscription "TSS/1737", 7/8 x 8-3/4 x 8-3/4 in.

Provenance: Johnathan Horne, London, England (label); Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Note: This plate is similar in style and may relate to a rare group of delft plates made for Chest County, Pennsylvania Quaker families, each of which is dated 1738. The plates are pictured and discussed in Paint, Pattern & Quilt, Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850, by Wendy A. Cooper Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa Minardi, pgs. 14-15. An example from the collection sold at Christies New York, The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill January 22, 2022 lot 645 for $27,720. 

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Johnathan Horne, London, England (label); Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

scattered anomalies, pinholes, and glaze voids, notable chipping along edge, scattered abrasions and scratches,