American Furniture & Decorative Arts

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The Barbara & Robert Levine Collection of Vermont Furniture &

Decorative Arts – Lots 1-

1.

American School, 19th Century

Small Portrait of a Boy Opening a Door, with His Tiger Cat Waiting,

c. 1850. Unsigned. Oil on canvas applied to panel, 10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.,

in a period molded bird’s-eye maple frame. Condition: Good, minor

flaking to clear varnished surface.

Note: Inscriptions on the original stretcher read, “From Gram Osborn”

and “Blundel Strong”; a note on the reverse states that the painting,

before changing hands a couple times, was purchased at a Rutland,

Vermont, auction in the early 1970s.

$1,200-1,

2.

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of Benjamin Metcalf of Wilmington, Vermont, c. 1830.

Unsigned, the figure identified in a penciled inscription verso. Oil on

panel, 14 x 10 in., in a period grain-painted frame. Condition: Minor

paint losses and retouch, two light scratches, panel slightly bowed.

Note: The man depicted in the present lot is the cabinetmaker who

made and labeled the yarn swift, lot 39.

$1,000-1,

3.

Paint-decorated Pine Storage Box, Charlotte, Vermont, c. 1853,

rectangular box with hinged lid, opening to a cavity over a single drawer,

the drawer back inscribed in pencil “Will Williams Charlotte, Vt. July 10,

‘53,” the front of the box with two oval reserves painted with scenic

views, probably the town of Charlotte, Vermont, and Lake Champlain,

on an ochre-painted ground with brown linear borders, and outlining

oval reserves on the top and sides, (minor paint wear), ht. 10 3/4, wd.

17, dp. 12 1/2 in.

Provenance: J. Dickerson Inc. auctioneers, to Harold E. Cole,

Woodbury, Connecticut, to the consignor, who purchased it December

4, 1994.

$800-1,

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