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Vander Sande Collection | Session II | November 13, 2025

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Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including an extremely rare Boston Cromwellian upholstered high back chair; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as the Mason-Messenger Shop of Boston, Steven Jacques of Newbury, James Symonds of Salem, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; two rare 17th century needlework boxes; William & Mary furniture including a part-ebonized chamber table and a japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century ceramics such as Nottingham carved mugs, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, and a rare Wrotham four handled tyg.
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Lot 1016

Rare and Exceptional Pilgrim Century Massachusetts Carved Joined Chest

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

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attributed to the shop of Thomas Dennis, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1680-1690, oak with white pine secondary, elaborately carved and paneled, facade with traces of red, black, and white paint, paneled back and case sides, open interior, carved corner brackets, original tall stile feet, chestnut bottom boards, carved cipher or initial in the left side molding, 32-1/2 x 47-1/2 x 22-3/4 in.

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

Note: Featured in Forgotten Frontier Untold Stories Piscataqua, Emerson Baker, Nina N. Maurer, 2018, page 5; with supporting scholarly articles.

Illustrated: Forgotten Frontier: Untold Stories of the Piscataqua, Old Berwick Historical Society, 2018.

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

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