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June 22, 2024: Premier Americana - Day Four

Sat, Jun 22, 2024 09:00AM EDT
Lot 2310

ANTHONY CHAMNESS (1773-1853) ATTRIBUTED, RANDOLPH CO., NORTH CAROLINA FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT WRITING / DRESSING TABLE

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Sold for

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

ANTHONY CHAMNESS (1773-1853) ATTRIBUTED, RANDOLPH CO., NORTH CAROLINA FEDERAL INLAID WALNUT WRITING / DRESSING TABLE, the two-board rectangular top over a single full drawer bearing a panel of simple line inlay with incurvate corners, frame under drawer with line inlaid guilloche design, the whole raised on square tapered legs line inlaid with a band following the shape of the leg and a loop at the top. Retains an older refinished surface with warm color. Brasses replaced. Yellow pine secondary wood. MESDA labels to interior of drawer date from 1998 and 2017. Attributed to Anthony Chamness (1773-1853), possibly with work by Zebedee Wood (1799-1874). Circa 1820. 34 1/4" HOA, 29 3/8" WOA, 19 3/8" DOA.
Catalogue Note: Documented by Frank L. Horton for MESDA in 1998 (S-27235), and by June Lucas, Gary Albert, and Kim May in 2017 (D-33210).
A very similar example is currently on display in the North Carolina Museum of Art in: Layered Legacies: Quilts from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem.

Condition

Good condition overall with the top having been reset and a piece added along the back, the front board of the top having a slight warp.

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Brunk Auctions, 9/6/2008, lot 0364.
Private collection, Charleston South Carolina. Found in the Asheville, North Carolina area.