A George III Mahogany Butler's Chest of Drawers

Late 18th Century

with rectangular molded top, over four graduated drawers with cock-beading, on molded base with bracket feet.

Height 32 x width 31 1/2 x depth 17 1/2 inches.

Property from the Estate of Helen Elliot Scott (1928-2024)

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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Born in Boston in 1928, Helen (Gay) Scott, nee Elliot, was a pianist, piano teacher, mother of three and grandmother of seven. She studied piano at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, 1969-1973, while living in London where her husband was special assistant to Walter Annenberg, the American ambassador to the Court of St. James. Married for 42 years to Robert Montgomery Scott (1929-2005), President and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1982-1996, Helen served on the board of the Curtis Institute of Music, taught piano at the Settlement Music School, and privately into her nineties. She was an alumna of the Shady Hill School, the Foxcroft School and Radcliffe College.

the top with some considerable puckering / warping to veneer, with some cracking and splitting to veneer along grain- not an even surface- with some patches visible; the left side panel with a large age crack / seam separation; the drawers glide easily, with replaced brasses; with some patches to veneer along cockbeading, and with patches over lock slots along dustboard fronts; the front right-facing foot is replaced; with some scuffing and expected wear to feet commensurate with age and use

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Collect: Americana

A George III Mahogany Butler's Chest of Drawers

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