A Group of Three Tole- Decorated Asphaltum Tinware Tablewares, Pennsylvania, Circa 1830-1850

Comprising a coffeepot with gooseneck spout and decorated with bold tulip decoration, attributed to Harvey Filley Tinshop, Philadelphia (active 1818-1853), a coffeepot of lighthouse-form and decorated with fruit motifs; and a tea caddy decorated with flower.

H: 10 3/4 in. (tallest)

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Coffeepot attributed to Harvey Filley Tinshop: the underside bearing label for The Austin and Jill Fine Collection, Jill's Hill, Baltimore, Maryland,

Blanche and Abraham Harpending, Rochester, New York,

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 7, 2010, lot 514

Coffeepot of lighthouse-form: Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, November 5, 2011, lot 455

Tea caddy: Walters-Benisek,

Private collection,

David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles,

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 3, 2012, lot 549

A Philadelphia gentleman.

expected signs of wear to each including scattered loss to surface and painted decoration and some scratching, but in general retaining the majority of the brightly colored motifs; shorter teapot with minor dent along bottom rim; tea caddy with some minor denting to domed top

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She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

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American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Group of Three Tole- Decorated Asphaltum Tinware Tablewares, Pennsylvania, Circa 1830-1850

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