Interiors, Featuring Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company

Provenance:

G.K.S. Bush;

Hindman, Atlanta, Georgia, September 19, 2019;

Michael Higgins, Nashville, Tennessee, 2020.

Note:

Addice and Peter Thomas, passionate collectors of American and English antiques, amassed a vast collection over their 60-year marriage. Both were active members of the Washington, D.C. arts community. Peter served as Dean of the Corcoran School of Art and later as Art Director at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Addice studied voice and worked for two decades as the manager of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center.

As collectors, their focus was primarily on the 18th and 19th centuries, though they occasionally acquired from earlier periods. They frequently sourced their antiques at shops along the east coast and during their annual trips to the United Kingdom.

Their collection is incredibly diverse, encompassing a wide range of items from art, folk art, and decorative arts to sterling silver, tinware, blue granite, pewter, copper and brass. Their collection of English ceramics including ironstone, early Mason’s wares, Gaudy Welsh, Gaudy Dutch, and Staffordshire, numbered in the hundreds. Additionally, they acquired over one hundred Staffordshire figures and child's dishes, Toby jugs, and Dutch ceramics including a striking five-vase garniture. Finally, they had a substantial collection of American and English furniture, child’s furniture and over fifty Persian carpets. Their collection was a testament to their passion for antiques and their dedication to building a truly unique collection.

In overall fine and stable condition. Retaining a fairly even, refinished patina and surface throughout, though the top lightly faded in areas likely due to exposure to the sun. Few age cracks to the case. Scuffs, marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Age cracks visible. The pulls and escutcheons, while seemingly of the period, are replaced. Each drawer shows patches to the upper molded edge of the drawer face, the longest approx. 6” in length. Some areas of loss to the molded drawer edges. Two repaired cracks to the molding along the proper left side of the top. The proper back right corner of the top has a cracked and reglued triangular section, approx. 14 x 3 inches. The front feet showing cracks/patches approx. 3” from the bottom to each the front and side foot facings. The proper rear right foot block and facing have been reglued and secured with screw. Proper front right foot previously detached and reglued.
Secondary wood: Pine and poplar.

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