Live Auction 2670Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints
A PAINTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PINE BLANKET CHEST
Lot 130 PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND FAMILY

A PAINTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PINE BLANKET CHEST

SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, PROBABLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY, DATED 1786

Closed25 January 2013

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A PAINTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED PINE BLANKET CHEST
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, PROBABLY MONTGOMERY COUNTY, DATED 1786
inscribed Annamarie Muthhart 1786
28 in. high, 48 in. wide, 23 in. deep

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Elgin
William K. duPont, Newark, Delaware
James and Nancy Glazer, Philadelphia, 1984

Specialist note

For related examples see Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa Minardi, Paint, Pattern and People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania: 1725-1850, (Winterthur, Delaware, 2011), p. 146, fig. 3.48.