Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
A Federal Grain Paint-Decorated Blanket Chest with Drawer, New England, circa 1810
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
white pine
height 30 ½ in. by width 41 in. by depth 17 in.
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Avery Antiques at the Greenwich Antiques Show, 1989.
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 87-8, fig. 148a-d.
A related chest is illustrated in Dean Fales, Jr., American Painted Furniture 1660-1800, (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979), p. 217, fig. 365.
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