American Furniture & Decorative Arts

447.

Federal Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Clock, Roxbury, Massachusetts,

the white-painted iron tombstone dial with painted floral spandrels,

seconds hand and calendar aperture, lettered “S. Willard,” with brass

eight-day weight-driven movement, the case with brass stop-fluting and

inlaid stringing, old surface, (restoration), ht. 91 1/4 in.

$6,000-8,000

448.

Federal Mahogany Inlaid Piano Forte, Benjamin Crehore and Alpheus

Babcock, Milton, Massachusetts, c. 1805, the case attributed to John

and Thomas Seymour, Boston, with floral polychrome decoration on the

nameboard attributed to the shop of John Ritto Penniman, ht. 32 1/2,

wd. 63 1/4, dp. 23 in.

Literature: A similarly decorated nameboard on a piano forte by

Benjamin Crehore with painting attributed to Penniman is shown in

“John Penniman and the Ornamental Painting Tradition in Federal-era

Boston,” by Robert Mussey and Christopher Shelton, in American

Furniture 2010, ed. Luke Beckerdite, Chipstone Foundation, p. 24,

figure 35.

$1,800-2,500

449.

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of Girl Wearing a Red Dress Seated at the Piano, c. 1835.

Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., in a period molded giltwood

frame. Condition: Relined, inpainting, craquelure, minor paint losses.

Provenance: Edward Rushford, Salem, Massachusetts.

$1,500-2,500

450.

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Woman Seated at a Table, Reading a Book, c. 1860.

Unsigned. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 21 x 17 3/4 in., in a

period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Toning, minor foxing.

$800-1,000

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