$11,850
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. red paint revealed by scraping off later surfaces, then refreshed in places; cornice molding trimmed at ends.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
