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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 632

Five Mezzotints After Sir Godfrey Kneller

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

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$1,000 $100
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$3,000 $250
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$10,000 $1,000
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(British, 18th century)

Portraits of women in gardens, John Smith, engraver: The Hon.ble Lady Essex Mostyn, sight 13-3/4 x 10 in.; The Hon:ble M.rs Sherard., sight 13-1/4 x 9-3/4 in.; Mrs. Arabella Hunt, 1706, sheet 13-1/2 x 10 in.; Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh, sight 13 x 9-1/2 in.; Madam D'Avenant, sight 13-3/8 x 9-7/8 in.; matching black painted print frames of varying sizes, largest 15-7/8 x 12-1/4 in.

Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

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Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

not examined out of frames, "Mostyn" trimmed, laid down to paper, loss upper left corner, light toning and staining, some abrasion to ink, small tear in image middle right edge, creases, "Sherard" with light toning and foxing, slight waviness to paper, "Arabella" trimmed, inside of plate, laid down on paper, creases, light staining and toning, ink with some abrasions, "Ranelagh" with light toning and foxing, surface abrasions, retouch on rock middle left , "D 'Avenant" with light foxing, laid down on paper, small losses lower left corner, abraded ink lower left; frames with abrasions and minor losses, one with white paint accretion, one piece of glazing with scratch