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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 622

Very Rare Boston Queen Anne Caned Side Chair

Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000
Starting Bid
$3,000

Bid Increments

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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

Massachusetts, 1710 to 1720, the back stamped with "I", rare "horse bone" legs, finally turned stretchers, carved, scrolled, and pierced crest, 45 x 17-1/2 x 14-1/2 in.

Note: A fine example from a small group of known Boston cane chairs, this example is illustrated in Adamson, "Politics of the Caned Chair," in American Furniture, 2002. Also illustrated in Ward, The Cabinet Maker and the Carver: Boston Furniture from Private Collections, catalog number 9. Also illustrated in Lasser, "The Cane Chair and its Sitter," in American Furniture, 2010, pg. 58 and 59.

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

apron replaced, otherwise excellent condition considering the fragile nature of the form, some minor pest damage at feet with minor associated losses, one old loss at back edge of rear foot, typical caning scars, back of front legs with later metal bracket supports