Lot 238

A Copper Kettle of Stokes Family Interest

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Estimate$800 – $1,200

Status

Closed

A Copper Kettle of Stokes Family Interest

Likely Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania, Early 19th Century

oval form, the lid with brass knob, the underside of handle with impressed numeral, "6," the body engraved, "John H. Stokes M.D. 1765-1817/ John H. Stokes M.D. 1808-1873/ Anne Jenkins Stokes 1844-1903/ John Spencer Stokes 1884."

Height 11 3/4 x width 13 1/2 x depth 7 1/4 inches (when handle raised).

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

The assumed line of descent: John Hinchman Stokes, MD, and Ann Evans Stokes, thence to their son John Hinchman Stokes, MD (1808-1873) and Tabitha (Jenkins) Stokes (1815-1884), thence to their daughter Anne Jenkins Stokes (1844-1903), thence to Anne's brother John Spencer Stokes, MD (1842-1868), although the engraved date "1884" falls outside his life dates. It may refer to the death date of their mother.

Presumably passed down through the family to the present consignor.

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1600 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia

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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.

Collect: Americana

A Copper Kettle of Stokes Family Interest

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