Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Furniture: American (20)

Rare Chester County Pennsylvania Spice Chest in walnut having a moulded cornice above a raised panel door opening to an arrangement of ten small drawers (one replaced) and raised on straight bracket feet. Secondary woods include: poplar, oak, walnut and beech. There is a faint inscription on one of the bottom drawers. Pennsylvania, circa 1760-80.

Spice boxes or chests were a status symbol in colonial America. Only a household that was well furnished and fairly prosperous had a spice box...

Antique American Mahogany Tilt-top Table, the single board round top supported on a pillar of tapering shaft, urn and rings; the legs with plain knees ending in simple pad feet; the lower edges of the pillar and knees attractively scalloped; the overall form typical of Massachusetts.
Circa 1760-80

In the 18th Century, both here and in England, the centers of your public rooms were left empty when not in use (except for your "Turkey Rug")...

Antique Federal Southern Sidechair in walnut, having a shaped crest rail above an openwork splat, upholstered slip seat and moulded, tapered legs joined by an “H” stretcher. Circa 1790-1800.

Height: 38”
Width: 21.5”
Depth: 18.5”

American Chippendale Ox-Bow Slant-Front Desk. Massachusetts, Circa 1780. In Nicely Faded Mahogany, the hinged, rectangular lid opening to an interior fitted with an arrangement of valanced pigeonholes and small drawers. Below are four reverse-serpentine graduated drawers and the whole is raised on graceful ogee bracket feet. The grain of the mahogany on the lid and drawer fronts is very fine and the sides are 'plum-pudding' mahogany...

Fine American Federal candlestand in maple, having a rectangular cut- corner top above a vasiform pillar and raised on three downswept tapered legs. Circa 1790.

Length: 17”
Width: 15.75”
Height: 28”

Rare pair of Gothic Revival Sidechairs by the Green Family of Cabinetmakers, Alexandria Virginia; in walnut with leafage carved and shaped crest rails over turned spindles and with drop in seats, serpentine front seat rails and raised on saber legs.
Circa 1850-70.

These chairs are very closely related to a chair (#14) in Oscar Fitzgerald's catalog: "The Green Family of Cabinetmakers: An Alexandria Institution, 1817-1887" which descended in the Tucker family of Alexandria.

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Late Federal Tripod Candlestand in Maple, having a rectangular top with cut corners, a turned vasiform pillar and raised on three downswept tapered legs. New England, 1790-1810.

Height: 29”
Length: 18”
Depth: 16”

Antique Late Federal Tilt Top Candlestand in walnut and cherry, having a rectangular, rounded corner top above a turned vasiform pillar and raised on downswept, tapered legs. American, Circa 1800.

Height: 28.5”
Length: 20 ”
Depth: 16.5”

Rare American Papier Mache Music Stand by Charles Chinnock , British/American (active 1862-1884), having a shaped adjustable top with painted and mother of pearl inlaid scene of fishermen outside castle walls, a later removable bookrest and an adjustable height pillar and base with stencil and gilt decoration. Retaining a stamped metal patent plaque. Some wear to stencil decoratiion

Top; 16.25" x 13.25"
Table Height: 29"
Max. Height 48.5"

Antique American painted tole tray with cut corners and handholds and with gilt stencil decorations on the gallery of leaves and flowers. Mid-19th century, now mounted on a custom stand.

Height: 22”
Width: 18.5”
Length: 26.5”

Federal Mahogany Pembroke Table with secondary wood of poplar, having rectangular top with two shaped drop-leaves above a frieze drawer, flanked by reeded pilasters and raised on reeded, tapering legs ending in brass casters. New York, circa 1810.

See illustration of similar table from Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel by Berry B. Tracy.

Height: 28.5”
Width: 23.5”
Depth: 36”
Leaf: 11.5”

American Wrought Iron Dictionary or Music Stand, with three scrolling legs supporting a twist turned pillar and an angled book rest. Early 20th C.

Height: 41.5”

Fine Southern side chair in walnut having shaped crest rail above a vasiform splat and supported by cabriole legs ending in pad feet. Probably Virginia, 1745-1765. (Re-railed)

Height: 37”
Width: 21.5”
Depth: 20”

Antique Late Federal Mustard Painted Dressing Table, having a box drawer above a rectangular top with curved corners, a single drawer below and raised on ring turned tapered legs. The whole in yellow paint with painted string "inlay" and painted "banding". New England, circa 1830. (Retains it's original stamped brass pulls and a partial inscription inside the main drawer...

Antique American candlestand in cherry having square top with “baby’s bottom” corners, nice vasiform turned pillar and cabriole leg ending in pad foot. Circa 1780-1800.

Length: 16.75”
Depth: 16.25”
Height: 28.25”

Chippendale Cherry Dish Top Candlestand having a hinged round dished top on a turned vase shaped central column and raised on tripod cabriole legs terminating in snake feet. American, circa 1780. (one leg with old repair)

h:26.50
w:20in.

Fine American Federal candlestand in maple, having a rectangular cut- corner top above a vasiform pillar and raised on three downswept tapered legs. Circa 1790.

Length: 17”
Width: 15.75”
Height: 28”

Wonderful faux grained and stencilled American “fancy chair” with stencils of an eagle and basket of fruit, faux grained seat and yellow highlights. Circa 1840.

Height: 33”
Width: 17.5”
Depth: 15.75”

For more about this movement, see "American Fancy, Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840" by Sumpter Priddy