A Chippendale Carved Walnut Dressing Table, Philadelphia or Bucks County, PA, Circa 1745-1755

The long drawer bearing old label inscribed in ink, "This dressing table and small drawers came over with the first of the Smith family from England and came down in line to Kate Hampton Smith who married Howard Trego."

H: 28 3/4 in. W: 34 1/2 in. D: 21 in.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Likely ordered by Thomas Smith, Sr. (1720-1806) and Elizabeth Kinsey (1717-1798), by descent to David Smith (1761-1823) and Eleanor (Blackfan) Smith (1767-1854), by descent to John Smith (b. 1799-?) and Jane (Buckman) Smith (1806-?) of Pineville, Pennsylvania, by descent to Catharine Hampton Smith (1825-1907) and Howard A. Trego (1829-1924), by descent to a Trego family member

Robert H. Clinton & Co., Inc., Ottsville, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1999, lot F14

Philip H. Bradley Co., Antiques, Downingtown, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from above)

A private collection, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, (acquired directly from above on January 7, 2000)

Alderfer Auction, Hatfield, Pennsylvania, October 12, 2011, lot 180

Property from the Estate of Sydney F. Martin, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from above).

Note:

The inscribed label falsely implies that the table came over with Robert Smith, who immigrated to America in England in 1698 and eventually owned roughly 700 acres of land spread across Buckingham, Makefield, and Wrightstown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The table was however passed down through the Smith family via Robert's descendents.

overall retaining a nice even surface; the top is three board, and with evidence of honest use including an age crack to left-facing side, and some dark stains and old scratches; the top drawer is missing the lock, has small loss to upper right-facing corner of drawer face, and includes period replacements for the brasses; the short drawers bear original brasses; the right-most short drawer with old loss to upper right-facing corner of drawer face

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Lynda Cain serves as a Vice President of Freeman's and is the Head of Department for American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts.
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 Chippendale Carved Walnut Dressing Table, Philadelphia or Bucks County, PA, Circa 1745-1755

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