Shaker Collections Online
Description:
Shaker Yellow-painted Cupboard over Drawers, Hancock, Massachusetts, or New Lebanon, New York, 1840, two paneled cupboard doors above five thumb-molded drawers, the inside of one drawer bottom inscribed "[N/W]CB March 21, 1840," and the underside of another drawer scratched "March 1840," old varied surfaces of ochre yellow stain, faint red wash over ochre yellow to drawerfronts, gray paint to one end, interior with likely original pumpkin-colored wash, ht. 77 1/2, wd. 35 1/4, dp. 19 3/4 in.
Provenance: Ed Clerk, Avis Howells, Belfast, Maine; Strauss Collection, Rochester, New York; The Rathbun Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island, September 7, 1994.
Estimate $6,000-8,000
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Keywords
Strauss, Avis Howells, Wakefield, Belfast, Hancock, Rochester
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