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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 545

Important Massachusetts Pilgrim Century Paneled Oak Lift Top Chest

Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Starting Bid
$10,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Northern Essex County, dated 1685, front inscribed “The 19 of the 11 MO 1685 GIP”, single side hung drawer, carved ebonized corner brackets, 30-1/4 x 51 x 20-1/4 in.

Provenance: inside of lid with family history, “Thomas Albert Newhall, 1813-1892, Lydia Jane Clark, 1858-1936, Frances Bernon Stoddard, 1888” and “T.A.N -L.J.N.  Walnut Cottage”; Sold Freeman's, Philadelphia, April 24, 2004 lot 56 for $44,000; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Note: For related examples and more information, see Trent, Follansbee and Miller, "First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts Shop" in American Furniture, 2001, p. 1064.

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inside of lid with family history, “Thomas Albert Newhall, 1813-1892, Lydia Jane Clark, 1858-1936, Frances Bernon Stoddard, 1888” and “T.A.N -L.J.N.  Walnut Cottage”; Sold Freeman's, Philadelphia, April 24, 2004 lot 56 for $44,000; Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

lid replaced, otherwise excellent condition, appears to retain almost all of its original applied bosses and moldings with only scattered minor repairs, fitted with later casters