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Fine Chippendale Parcel-gilt and Mahogany-veneered Pine Mirror, attributed to Nathan Ruggles (17...
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Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Fine Chippendale Parcel-gilt and Mahogany-veneered Pine Mirror, attributed to Nathan Ruggles (1774-1835), Hartford, Connecticut, 1790-1810. Rectangular silvered looking glass lined with a plane-beveled backboard screwed to mahogany-veneered pine frame with a gilt and crossband-veneered aperture double-rounded at the top corners, the scrolled pediment crest centering a later gilded and carved finial in the form of a phoenix, the volutes featuring giltwood molding and rosettes above bead-molded giltwood oval reserve in the tympanum, finely carved feathered and spurred scrolls applied to top and bottom edges of stiles are linked by carved giltwood pendant foliage, all over a slightly curved bottom rail carved to conform with sharp contours of the scrolled ears, including finial, 60cm wide, 5cm deep, 137cm high (24 1/2in wide, 2 1/2in deep, 54 1/2in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 26 May 2004. Literature A remarkably similar looking glass retaining the label of Nathan Ruggles is illustrated together with an English model in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), cat. no. 212-3. Also see David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), cat. no. 175. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Fine Chippendale Parcel-gilt and Mahogany-veneered Pine Mirror, attributed to Nathan Ruggles (1774-1835), Hartford, Connecticut, 1790-1810. Rectangular silvered looking glass lined with a plane-beveled backboard screwed to mahogany-veneered pine frame with a gilt and crossband-veneered aperture double-rounded at the top corners, the scrolled pediment crest centering a later gilded and carved finial in the form of a phoenix, the volutes featuring giltwood molding and rosettes above bead-molded giltwood oval reserve in the tympanum, finely carved feathered and spurred scrolls applied to top and bottom edges of stiles are linked by carved giltwood pendant foliage, all over a slightly curved bottom rail carved to conform with sharp contours of the scrolled ears, including finial, 60cm wide, 5cm deep, 137cm high (24 1/2in wide, 2 1/2in deep, 54 1/2in high). Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 26 May 2004. Literature A remarkably similar looking glass retaining the label of Nathan Ruggles is illustrated together with an English model in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), cat. no. 212-3. Also see David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), cat. no. 175. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
The Eric van Rooy Estate: A Connecticut Gentleman'
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274 Cedar Hill St
Marlborough
Massachusetts
01752
United States
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