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Important Historic Americana | September 28, 2024

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Features a remarkable selection of historic Americana, including important 18th-century American furniture and Delft from the collection of Constance & Dudley Godfrey; an exceptionally rare North Carolina survey map; New England & Philadelphia furniture, including an exceptional Philadelphia easy chair & a rare Connecticut Chippendale carved cherry chest in undisturbed surface; from a Revolutionary & patriotic-focused New England collection are rare prints & documents, early brass, ceramics, furniture, & accessories; a group of early portraits features Sully, Stuart, & Sharples; & much more
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Lot 1007

Rare and Important Staffordshire Slipware "IC" Bird Charger

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
Starting Bid
$15,000

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English, early to mid 18th century, the center with raised brown bird decoration and the initials "IC", with pie crust rim, 3 x 16 in. diameter

Provenance: Elliott & Grace Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, Massachusetts, (accompanied with receipt dated February 6, 2016 for $55,000); Private New England Collection

Note: A similar example can be seen in The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware: Volume 1 by Leslie B. Grigsby, p. 89. Another dish initialed "IC" can be found in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, object number 56-11, see: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/24692/dish;jsessionid=95F302F6ECE8BF19A9F9437E3D354680. 

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Elliott & Grace Snyder Antiques, South Egremont, Massachusetts, (accompanied with receipt dated February 6, 2016 for $55,000); Private New England Collection

in remarkable state of preservation, scattered anomalies, crazing, and glaze voids, some chipping to pie crust teeth, scattered chips to under rim, some small chips and scratches to underside, scratching and small chips to interior, surface dirt/accretion