American Furniture & Decorative Arts

21. Federal Tiger Maple and Cherry Inlaid Chest of Drawers, Asa
    Loomis, Shaftsbury, Vermont, 1816, the case of cockbeaded drawers
    and flanking bird’s-eye maple panels, refinished, replaced brass pulls,
    (minor imperfections), inscribed on the underside of the top by the
    cabinetmaker “Made by Asa Loomis in the year 1816,” ht. 45 1/4, case
    wd. 42 1/2, dp. 20 3/4 in.

Literature: See Zogry, pp. 42-23; and Robinson, p. 75.

Provenance: Sold at Skinner, American Furniture and Decorative Arts,
Bolton, Massachusetts, March 23, 1997, lot 80.
$3,000-5,000

22.

American School, 19th Century

View of a Barnet Centre, Vermont, Church, c. 1830. Unsigned.

Watercolor on paper, 12 x 14 3/4 in., in a period molded wood frame

with gilt liner. Condition: Toning, tear c.l., stains, seven pinhole size

punctures.

Provenance: A note affixed to the verso is inscribed: “This picture was

painted by Mrs. Goodmiller-wife of one of the pastors of the Barnet

Centre Church. About 1878 it was given to Agnes Nelson Bachelder

Gilkerson by Mrs. Wm. Lendr---n of So. Argyle, N.Y. It then descended

to her daughter -Laura Jane Gilkerson Morris. After her death it came

to Agnes E. Morris Oat---an- 1941.”

$1,500-2,500

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