Sale 1319
| New York
| New York
Estimate$1,500 – $3,000
Provenance:
Purchased from J. K. Beard, Richmond, Virginia,
E. Ross (1894-1971) and Bessie S. Millhiser (1895-1987), Richmond, Virginia,
Kenneth (1924-2021) and Katherine Millhiser (b. 1937), Piedmont, California.
presents nicely, with wonderful figuring to mahogany; with several repaired breaks and/or replaced elements to ears and scrolls commensurate with age, the reverse revealing some later braces to subject repairs; the inner gesso and gilded border with some rubbing and loss to gilding; some age cracks to back side; appears to retain original lower half of backboard, the upper backboard with different oxidation color, may be later; the glass plate is a replacement, although it does have some age, as revealed by some dark inclusions, confined mostly to bottom half and right-facing side
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Andrew Taggart
Associate Vice President, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts