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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 539

Rare New England Pilgrim Century Oak Court Cupboard

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
Starting Bid
$2,600

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

possibly John Taylor shop, Harvard College, circa 1680, the top with three carved panels with initials "IMB", two case construction, the upper section with two paneled doors, lower section with single long drawer with false double front over a central paneled door, ebonized bosses and split turnings throughout, 57-3/4 x 47-1/2 x 20-1/2 in.

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

Note: A very closely related court cupboard is in the collections of the Concord Museum. For this and other examples, see Trent and Podmaniczky, "An Early Cupboard Fragment From the Harvard College Joinery Tradition" in American Furniture, 2002.

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

restorations and repairs including replaced top and most or all applied bosses and spindles, backboards replaced, large ebonized turnings resurfaced or restored, other scattered restorations including some door framing, rear feet ended out (see blacklight images)