A Trompe L’Oeil Painted Pine Fireboard, 18th Century
Sale 1278 - The Donald F. Moylan, M.D. Collection of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts, Part I
Nov 3, 2023
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Live / Cincinnati
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$3,000 -
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$8,820
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Lot Description
A Trompe L’Oeil Painted Pine Fireboard, 18th Century
Likely Massachusetts, Late 18th Century
with a series of painted imitation Delft tiles to perimeter and sponge paint-decorated base.
Height 30 1/2 x width 44 1/4 x depth 4 1/2 inches.
According to Nina Fletcher Little, the board was found in an upper chamber of the Ebenezer Waters house in Sutton, Massachusetts. She mused that Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790), who completed other painted panels for the Waters house, may have painted this board as well. (See Nina Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts [New York City, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984] p. 91).
Exhibited in Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, The Tavern Ballroom, From Nature or Fancy: an exhibition of chimneypieces, boards and other examples of painted interior woodwork done in New England, October 11-November 11 1952.
Height 30 1/2 x width 44 1/4 x depth 4 1/2 inches.
According to Nina Fletcher Little, the board was found in an upper chamber of the Ebenezer Waters house in Sutton, Massachusetts. She mused that Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790), who completed other painted panels for the Waters house, may have painted this board as well. (See Nina Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts [New York City, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984] p. 91).
Exhibited in Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, The Tavern Ballroom, From Nature or Fancy: an exhibition of chimneypieces, boards and other examples of painted interior woodwork done in New England, October 11-November 11 1952.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Provenance:
Mrs. Gordon Wood, 1952;
Sotheby's, New York City, New York, The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 23-26, 1994, Lot 292.
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