Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
Founded in 1962, the Art Dealers Association of America is a vetted community of more than 180 top-tier galleries across the United States. Working with these member galleries, ADAA appraisers offer assessment services for artworks spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. The ADAA also arranges public forums on important art-related topics and hosts The Art Show, presented each year at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, which stands out among art fairs for its acclaimed selection of curated booths — many of which are one-artist exhibitions.227
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Pair of 18th Century Baltimore Mahogany Chippendale Side Chairs
Located in West Chester, PA
Pair of Baltimore mahogany Chippendale side chairs with wonderfully carved crest rail and pierced Gothic splat with molded stiles cabriole legs term...
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18th Century American Chippendale Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Beneath the Surface" by John W. McCoy
By John W. McCoy
Located in West Chester, PA
Abstract watercolor painting of stones underwater in a stream.
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20th Century American Post-Modern Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Peirce Park at Longwood" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
This image focuses on the earliest part of Longwood. The 1730s Peirce house and original arboretum. These ancient trees so tall they seem to cling to the sky as much as an anchor to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Runnymeade" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
One of my favorite views. Atmosphere transitions from dapled light in the foreground to the haze of distant hills.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Still Life Painting of Peaches by George Cope
By George Cope
Located in West Chester, PA
Wondeful still life scene of peaches spread across a table by West Chester artist George Cope.
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Late 19th Century American Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Paint
Philadelphia Queen Anne Balloon Seat Side Chair
Located in West Chester, PA
Philadelphia Queen Anne side chair with yoke crest, solid splat and cabriole legs terminating in slipper feet.
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18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Spelter Still Bank "Seated Cat with a Bow" German, circa 1920
Located in Incline Village, NV
The term "spelter" refers to a zinc/lead metal compound used to pour and make castings. Because of the thinness of the castings there is great detail to the subject matter of these banks. Spelter banks...
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1920s German Folk Art Vintage Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Spelter
"Scribes of Old" by Arthur Meltzer
Located in West Chester, PA
Oil on canvas still life of early indenture and various items along a table.
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20th Century American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Butler's Desk and Etagére, New York, Possibly Duncan Phyfe
By Duncan Phyfe
Located in New York, NY
Butler’s Desk and Etagére, circa 1825
New York, possibly by Duncan Phyfe
Mahogany (secondary woods: mahogany, pine, poplar), with ormolu mounts, marble,...
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1820s American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Domed Chagrin Casket
Located in West Chester, PA
Very rare wood, iron and sharkskin domed casket on ball feet. Ornamented with iron strap work and double hasp lock. Silk damask interior.
Ex collection of...
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Late 17th Century French Renaissance Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Double Argand Lamp
Located in New York, NY
English.
Double Argand lamp, circa 1810.
Glass, blown and gilt bronze and -brass, with lamp mechanism, and with glass chimneys.
Measures: 20 1/16 in. high,...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
19th Century Bronze by Moreau Sitting Figure of a Lady 'Student or Scholar'
By Auguste Moreau
Located in Incline Village, NV
Of French origin, this mid to late 19th century bronze figure was made by the prolific French bronze making artist family "Moreau". The sculpture depicts a young female student or sc...
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19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Walnut Queen Anne Balloon Seat Side Chair
By William Savery
Located in West Chester, PA
Philadelphia walnut Queen Anne balloon seat side chair with Savery style knees terminating in slipper feet.
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18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Biedermeier Picture Clock with Musical Movement, Austria, circa 1825
Located in Incline Village, NV
These painting clocks are very rare, especially containing the music box. Of Austrian manufacture circa 1820-1830, this Biedermeier picture (painting) clock is a naive and charming oil painting on metal, which depicts nine people dressed in colorful period clothes at various activities; a woman with her child and carrying fruit in a basket atop her head, two young lovers, a man in a boat, another man walking with his dog, while still another gentleman leaves the town hall. A woman at the window...
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19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Metal
"Sunset Meditation" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
It is time to put aside small matters for the big picture.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Pair of Armchairs En Gondoles
Located in New York, NY
FAPG 20555D/2
Pair "Fauteuils," or armchairs, en Gondoles, circa 1830-1835
New York
Mahogany (secondary woods: ash)
Each, 31 1/2 in. high, 21 1/8 in. wide, 21 1/8 in. deep (over...
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1830s American American Classical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Walnut Chippendale Armchair
Located in West Chester, PA
Cupids bow crest with a carved shell pierced splat and bold arm supports ending in carved knuckles with cabriole legs terminating in trifid feet.
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Late 18th Century Chippendale Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Study on Falling Water" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
This is a meditation on change and impermanence. Water always moves, transforming. Not one drop falls exactly the same.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"White House" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
The Massey Plantation at the White Horse. A great landmark collection of buildings, walls, their relationships to each other are a result of centuries of building naturally in the la...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Pair of Medici-Form Vases
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Schoelcher, Paris, France, circa 1830.
Porcelain, painted and gilded.
16 1/4 in. high, 9 1/2 in. wide, 9 1/2 in. deep.
Ex Coll.: by repute, Joseph Bonaparte...
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Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Seven-Drawer Tall Chest of Drawers
Located in New York, NY
Boston, Massachusetts
Seven-drawer tall chest, circa 1825.
Mahogany (secondary woods: mahogany, pine, and poplar)
Measures: 45 5/8 in. high, 27 5/8 in. wide, 14 5/8 in. deep
Inscribed (on six drawer locks): SECURE; (on seventh lock): CHUBB’S / PATENT / 57 St PAULS CHY / LONDON / CHUBB & SON / MAKERS TO / HER MAJESTY / 632284; (on one hinge): [BUR?] NE PATENT; (on master lock): 2 LEVER.
Although some Boston furniture of the Neo-Classical period is elaborately decorated with ormolu mounts, brass moldings, and carved and gilded elements, other pieces are more simple and are said to reflect the “conservative” taste of many of Boston’s great families. The simplicity evident in these pieces is not an indication of a less-expensive line of furniture or a less-sophisticated patronage, but, like the so-called “Grecian Plain Style” of Duncan Phyfe’s furniture...
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1820s American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
"Taylor Run" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
The stream continues to flow through this timeless landscape. Abiah Taylor who built the barn, circa 1710 would feel perfectly at home in the present landscape.
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21st Century and Contemporary American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Makaalaye Point" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
A study in gradation of blue and transparency of tidal pools. This conveys a somewhat quiet moment but that can change quickly resulting in a salt bath.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Green Valley" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
One of the best tools a painter can have is a pick up truck. Several days I worked from my portable “studio” in the late Spring in the early evening to capture this family of deer as...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Walnut Hanging Cupboard
Located in West Chester, PA
An elegant expression of clean lines and beautiful walnut. This cupboard has a raised panel door and a scalloped tail below with two shelves.
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1750s American Queen Anne Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Doe Run" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
This piece was initiated for a plein air event in early fall. The weather is the story with high winds, rain, thunder and lighting which finally chased me to cover. I had to return i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Marshall Sycamore" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
A reflection on longevity. Standing since the founding of Pennsylvania this giant has stood witness to our founding fathers and their descendants. Humphrey Marshall once owned the land.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"People Watching" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
A day at the beach, bathers crowded together. The humans are facing the sea. The gull with his back to the sea finds human activity more interesting.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Pair of “Old Paris” Porcelain Coolers, Yellow Bands, Floral Wreaths
By Darte Frères
Located in New York, NY
Darte Frères, Paris, made, circa 1820.
Porcelain, partially painted and gilded.
Measures: 14 1/4 in. high, 10 3/8 in. wide (through the handles), 7 3/4 in. deep.
Signed (with stencil, in black, on the bottom of each): Darte. f.
Recorded: cf. Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain of Paris, 1770–1850 (New York: Walker and Company, 1972), p. 333 no. 79 illustrates the mark on these coolers.
Some of the most beautiful porcelain produced in Paris during the Empire/Restauration periods was made or sold by the firm of Darte Frères. Although the Darte family, which came from Namur, then in The Netherlands, had set themselves up in the business of the manufacture of porcelain as early as 1794–95, by 1803 the three Darte brothers had decided, as Régine de Plinval de Guillebon notes (ibid., p. 231), that “each should have his own establishment,” and, indeed, by 1804 their prior business partnership had been “annulled,” and from that point forward there were two businesses using the name Darte.
The Darte brothers, Louis Joseph and Jean François, began independent operation in 1804 at the Hôtel Montalembert, at 90, rue de la Roquette. Their business arrangements were only formalized in 1808, at which time they began to use the name “Darte Frères.” They remained in the business until 1825, when their partnership was dissolved.
Darte Frères produced a large variety of porcelain, including vast dinner and...
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19th Century Empire Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
"Simplicity" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
Over looking abundant fields of wildflowers an old Quaker home stands quietly on a knoll simple but elegant.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Tintype Displaying a Buffalo Bill Poster, circa 1890s
Located in Incline Village, NV
This is a Buffalo Bill item that would have appeal for collectors of both western and Buffalo Bill meomorabelia. It is a tintype, circa 1890s (the Buffalo Bill shows started in 1883)...
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19th Century American Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Tin
Oil on Canvas Manayunk Scene by Grace Gemberling Keast
Located in West Chester, PA
An exceptional composition of Manayunk, the considerable depth of this landscape both shifts the viewer eye throughout the composition while showing the transition of rural Manayunk ...
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Mid-20th Century American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"End of the Night" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
Enveloped in darkness the night fisher listens to the sea pound the rocks and feels the ground shake with the weight of the surf. The ocean spray washes away the thoughts of the day....
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Fan-Carved Wood Mantel in the Federal Taste
Located in New York, NY
New York,
Fan-carved mantel in the Federal taste, circa 1812
Pine
Measures: 66 1/4 in. high, 90 3/8 in. wide, 13 1/4 in. deep
Within the genre of carved rather than plasterwork mantels of the Federal Period, no example that has come to light is more perfectly designed or more carefully wrought than the present one, which is an amazing symphony of fans, urns, beads, and other Neo-Classical devices, all ultimately influenced by the plasterwork designs of the English architects Robert (1728–1792) and James (1732–1794) Adam.
Of a type that proliferated in the area bounded by the northern New Jersey counties of Bergen and Passaic, the Hudson Valley, and western Long Island, the mantel is representative of work that flourished in the first couple of decades of the 19th century. While most of the woodwork of this style that has survived is found in interiors, various examples of exterior doors and other trim have been noted, but most examples have disappeared as a result, variously, of natural deterioration and purposeful demolition in anticipation of development.
Although considerably larger in scale and more elaborate in ornament than a mantel that has been in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum since 1944 (acc. no. 44.55; photograph in Hirschl & Adler archives), the present mantel is so close in style and conception to that example that it likely originated in the same house.
The Brooklyn mantel is documented as having been removed from a house built by Judge Isaac Terhune (1762–1837), an eminent lawyer and judge. The house was situated on King’s Highway, at the corner of Mansfield Place, at the edge of South Greenfield, a village in northern Gravesend, Brooklyn. A photograph of the house, taken by the German e´migre´ photographer, Eugene Armbruster (1865–1933), is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Terhune is ultimately descended from the Dutch-Huguenot e´migre´ Albert Albertson Terhunen, who died in Flatlands, Brooklyn, in 1685.The family eventually spread out through New Amsterdam, Long Island, and Bergen County, New Jersey. Terhune’s great-grandson, also Albert (1715–1806), left a sizable estate to his six surviving children, including his second child and second son, Isaac.
Judge Terhune lived in the house until his death in 1837, at which time, according to an article in The New York Times for November 27, 1910, he, having died without issue, “left the White Frame Mansion with its exquisitely carved doorway, beautiful mantels, and other interior adornments to his brother John” (Part Six, p. 11).
The article continues:
After the latter’s death, the house and its estate of about 70 acres passed through several owners, eventually being purchased in 1853 by Benjamin G. Hitchings [1813–1893].
The house next passed to Benjamin’s son, Hector, who had been born in the house, and then lived there for 25 years. He sold it in 1910 in partial payment for a Manhattan apartment house. After thus having been sold to a real estate developer, the Hitchings property was subdivided into Hitchings Homestead. The house survived until about 1928, at which time it was razed and a Deco-style apartment house with the address 2301 Kings Highway was constructed on the site and occupied in 1935.
By 1910, the fate of the house, in an area of Brooklyn that was being rapidly developed, was becoming obvious. The Times article reported:
The house has been well kept up, but fearing lest the hand of time or vandals might deal harshly with some of its choice bits of carving, Mr. Hitchings removed a few years ago a few beautifully carved wood mantels...
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1810s American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Wood
"Winter Moutain Scene" by Carl Lawless
Located in West Chester, PA
A very nice oil on canvas in its original frame showing a small snowy village nestled in the mountains.
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Early 20th Century American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
18th Century American Queen Anne Candle Stand, circa 1775
Located in Incline Village, NV
This American Queen Anne maple candle stand has a nicely patinated original amber finish, which is particularly pleasing in color, and is in unaltered condition. It is from new Engla...
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1770s American Queen Anne Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Maple
"Traveller of Many Worlds" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
Based on Chinese Daoist painting, the figure contemplates the space between heaven and earth. The sea, vast, powerful and unbreakable. A time to consi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Pair of Oval Double Curule Benches, New York, Possibly Duncan Phyfe and Son
By Duncan Phyfe
Located in New York, NY
Pair of oval double Curule benches, circa 1835
New York, possibly Duncan Phyfe and Son
Rosewood (secondary woods: ash and poplar), with gilt-brass castors
Each, 16 3/8 in. high, 2...
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1830s American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
"Drifting in the Shadows" by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
This nocturne illustrates a moment when a quiet boating party’s serenity is suddenly rocked. The once peaceful night sky explodes with fireworks and merrymaking. Someone is always qu...
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20th Century American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"The Point" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
Sea meets land, waves roll to shore breaking in direction and size. This is a study in transparency, movement, and reflection.
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Silent Neighbors" by Carl Lawless
Located in West Chester, PA
"Silent Neighbors" by Carl Lawless.
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20th Century Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
"Early Snow" Painting by Richard Chalfant
Located in West Chester, PA
Painted during an unusual snow storm in October. A visual surprise of snow on fall color. Also, being a nocturne the colors are subtle.
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21st Century and Contemporary American Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Earthenware John Bennett Plaque with Pink and Blue Phlox
By John Bennett
Located in New York, NY
FAPG 20247D
John Bennett (1840-1907), New York
Plaque with pink and blue phlox, circa 1881-1882
Earthenware, painted and glazed
Measures: 14 7/8 in. diameter, 1 13/16 in. high
Signed and inscribed (on the back): J B[monogram] ENNETT /
E 24 NY. / MC [or] CM
If the Herter Brothers was the most distinguished and successful cabinet making and decorating firm in New York in the 1870s-1880s, the transplanted Englishman John Bennett was probably the most gifted ceramicist working in New York in the Aesthetic period. (Bennett was included in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s landmark exhibition, In pursuit of beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, in 1986–87, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen’s chapter, “Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass,” pp. 216–19, significantly informs this essay). Born in England, the son of a potter who worked in the Staffordshire district, Bennett came under the influence of John Sparkes, head of London’s Lambeth School of Art. Soon thereafter, he was hired by Henry Doulton of the eponymous firm to teach artisans there the new art of underglaze faience decoration, which was part of a revival of the sixteenth-century interest in hand-painted ceramics.
A number of Bennett’s works for Doulton were shown in the Doulton display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and the considerable success enjoyed by Bennett and Doulton from an American audience undoubtedly played an important role in Bennett’s decision to leave Doulton and England and set up shop in New York in 1877. By the next year, he had already established a studio in New York, where he produced his own pottery in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts innovators, William Morris and William De Morgan, and also taught classes at the new Society of Decorative Art to the growing band of women who had taken up china painting, both professionally and avocationally.
Bennett’s pottery developed a very serious following among students and collectors, and was offered for sale at such leading retail establishments as Tiffany & Company in New York. Typically, his work was brilliantly colored, with carefully drawn naturalistic flowers against a monochromatic background.
Bennett’s fully developed American work, particularly pieces of larger scale, is exceedingly rare, as he worked in New York only from 1877 to 1883, in which year he withdrew to a farm in rural West Orange, New Jersey, where his production continued on a limited basis. He remained listed as a ceramicist there until 1889. While in New York City, Bennett maintained a studio at 412 East 24th Street. The present charger, boldly featuring pink and blue phlox, is signed by Bennett, and is inscribed “E 24 NY,” indicating its manufacture during Bennett’s time in New York. Although it is not dated, this piece is closely related stylistically to various dated pieces from 1881–82, which would place its production toward the end of Bennett’s New York years.
Although we do not know whether Bennett worked out of this 24th Street studio from the outset, he was indeed working there by 1879 when he made (and signed, inscribed, and dated) a charger with white and red flowers now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, which specifically points to “412 East 24 / NY” (acc. no. 1998.317). Additionally, the U.S. Census of 1880 lists Bennett as a ceramicist located at that same address, married to Mary Bennett with whom he had had six children. There are several other examples from Bennett’s time in New York City, which also give his studio address on East 24th Street, including a covered jar in cadmium yellow with indigo and green flowers made in 1881; an undated footed vase with lilac...
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1880s American Aesthetic Movement Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
Rue de Leglish Church by Albert van Neese Greene
Located in West Chester, PA
Oil on board of a snowy church yard in France.
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20th Century Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Early Walnut Pewter Cupboard
Located in West Chester, PA
Straight sides with lollypop top, four shelves and panelled doors below with nice base molding and a wonderful patina overall.
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18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Wood
Hanging Lantern
By Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
Located in New York, NY
American (glass attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts), circa 1830-1840.
Glass, blown, partially frosted, and wheel cut, with cast and die-rolled brass, patinated.
This hanging lamp is typical of the production of such lanterns by the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, during the 1830s, and perhaps as late as the early 1840s. The present example is an unusually elaborate specimen with its overall frosting and cutting. In their The Glass Industry in Sandwich, II (1989), Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser quote Boston & Sandwich Glass Company manager Deming Jarves on the fabrication of lamps of this general type (p. 225 no. 2398). These hanging lanterns could be supplied with a candle or with a peg lamp...
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19th Century American Empire Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Brass
Miniature Striped-Maple Serpentine Chest of Drawers
Located in New York, NY
American, probably Boston or Salem, Massachusetts
Miniature Serpentine Chest of Drawers, circa 1785-1800
Striped maple, ebony, and rosewood (secondary woods: mahogany), with brass dr...
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1780s American Chippendale Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Three-Piece Ice Cream Parlor Suite
Located in Incline Village, NV
American three-piece ice cream parlor suite, consisting of a table and two chairs. The table has three steel metal legs ending in an iron ball and claw fo...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Marble, Metal
Pier Mirror in the Neoclassical Taste
Located in New York, NY
New York, circa 1815-1820.
Wood, gessoed and gilded, with mirror plate.
75 1/2 in. high, 44 1/8 in. wide (at the cornice), 8 1/2 in. deep (at the cornice).
Condition: Some restorati...
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19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Five Mechanical Bank Trade Cards in Frame, circa 1880s
By J. & E. Steven's Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
Five mechanical bank trade cards are displayed in two separate frames. In one frame are three polychrome trade cards, which the salesmen typically carrie...
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19th Century American Folk Art Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of 19th Century Urns 'Japanned Tole and Copper'
Located in Incline Village, NV
The copper domed covers are mounted with wood finials (possible added later). The shaped body of the urns terminate with turned socles which are in turn supported by drum like bases ...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Copper
Garden of Light
By Parke Custis Dougherty
Located in West Chester, PA
Oil on board of a women with parasol sitting in a garden filled with the light of the day.
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20th Century American American Classical Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Gothic Armoire
Located in New York, NY
FAPG 19959D/2
Gothic Revival armoire
New York, about 1835-1840
Mahogany, with brass hardware
Measure: 104 in. high, 73 in. wide, 30 in. deep
Exhibited: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2011–12, The World of Duncan Phyfe: The Arts of New York, 1800–1847, p. 89 no. 45 illus. 89
Ex coll.: Private collection (probably R. H. Selstadt, Big Stone Gap, Virginia)
Although no specific pieces of Gothic furniture documented as by Duncan Phyfe have come to light, there is considerable evidence that he, like various of his contemporaries in New York, embraced the Gothic style. For example, the catalogue of the Halliday & Jenkins auction sale of the contents of Phyfe’s furniture ware rooms, which was held on site at 192 and 194 Fulton Street, New York, on April 16 and 17, 1847, included a “mahogany centre table Gothic gilt pillar and Egyptian marble top” (Halliday & Jenkins, p. 3 no. 63); “12 mahogany Gothic chairs...
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19th Century American Gothic Revival Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Brass
Silver Plated Covered Tureen with Deer and Ram Motif, circa 1885, Meriden
By Meriden Britannia Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very unusual western Americana theme silver plated covered tureen, consisting of four feet of cast and silver plated deer heads; rams heads on each end; and opposite facing deer heads at the top of the lid to lift off of the bowl. Sides and top are decorated with elaborate floral engravings. It was manufactured by Meriden B...
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1880s American Victorian Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Silver Plate
Maple and Oak Candle Stand
Located in West Chester, PA
This is a very unusual candle stand made from maple and oak. It has a stationary oak dish top, maple turned urn shaped pedestal with three maple tu...
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1780s American Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Maple, Oak
Small Settee in the Neoclassical Taste
Located in New York, NY
Small Settee in the neoclassical taste
Boston, Massachusetts (active 1804–17), about 1810
Mahogany (secondary woods: ash)
Measures: 35 1/8 in. high, 59 3/4 in. long, 19 1/8 in. deep
Although the diminutive scale of this settee places it in a unique category, the piece itself partakes of a vocabulary that is common in Boston furniture of the Late Federal period. Its sabre legs, for example, as seen straight on from the left and right ends, are closely related to the legs, as seen from the front, on a group of chairs of undisputed Boston origin, including a spectacular armchair with scrolled arms (see Stuart P. Feld, Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810–1840, exhib. cat. [New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1999], p. 37 no. 6 illus. in color), as well as a number of side chairs, including a set made for Nathan Appleton (see Page Talbott, “Boston Empire Furniture, Part I,” The Magazine Antiques, CVII [May 1975], p. 887 fig. 12). In all, the legs are ornamented with two bold, somewhat flattened reeds set between corner beads, a pattern which is repeated here on the front and end seat rails as well. The superb quality of the piece is further demonstrated in the finely drawn profile of the arms, as well as the delicately bulbous surface of the fronts of the arms and legs. As in the best of the related chairs, the sabre legs end in delicately carved paw feet. The added refinement of the beautifully carved rosettes at both the fronts and backs of the arms suggests that the piece may have been designed to be used in the round.
Stylistically harmonious with these pieces is also a group of larger sofas with frontally set sabre legs and scrolled arms (see Page Talbott, “Seating Furniture in Boston, 1810–1835,” The Magazine Antiques, CXXXIX [May 1991], p. 963 pl. 11) that represent an indigenously Boston form. Although none of the furniture in this group has been effectively attributed, they can certainly be related to various Boston card tables...
Category
Early 19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Wood
Plateau in the Restauration Taste with Grape and Leaf Motifs
Located in New York, NY
French.
Plateau in the Restauration taste with grape and leaf motifs, circa 1825.
Ormolu and patinated bronze, with mirror plate and wood backing.
Measures: 15 7/8 in. diameter, 3 11...
Category
1820s French Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Clear Cut-Glass Covered Compote
Located in New York, NY
Monumental clear cut-glass covered compote, circa 1820.
La Cristallerie de Vonêche (active 1802-30), Belgium.
Glass, blown and cut.
Measures: 17 3/8 i...
Category
Early 19th Century Belgian Neoclassical Antique Art Dealers Association of America Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
