American Furniture & Decorative Arts
Description:
Red-painted Pine Open Cupboard, New England, last half 18th century, with deeply molded cornice above shelves with plate grooves joining cutout ends, on a projecting base with central drawer and two cupboard doors with fielded panels, and flanking hinged paneled doors, old red-painted surface, (imperfections),ht. 87 1/2, wd. 76, dp. 18 in.
Literature: This cupboard is illustrated and discussed in published in Fales, The Furniture of Historic Deerfield, pg. 254, as fig. 496.
Note: Property Approved for Deaccession by the Board of
Trustees of Historic Deerfield, Inc. Proceeds to the benefit the Museum
Collections Fund.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
red paint revealed by scraping off later surfaces, then refreshed in places; cornice molding trimmed at ends.