Lot 21: Carrier

SOLD: $5,250 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $3,000 – $5,000

Maple and pine, original lemon yellow painted finish, finely carved fixed handle with patina attached to inside, three fingers with copper tacks, in-use wear, tagged with Ed Clerk’s handwriting “Canterbury, NH Shaker Carrier, c. 1820, original yellow stain, purchased in Concord, NH around 1970”, 9 1/2” h (to top of handle), 11 1/2” l, 8 1/2” w, (Ed Clerk collection).

Exhibited
“Shaker Original Paints & Patinas”, Muhlenberg College, Center for the Arts, Allentown, Pennsylvania, June Sprigg, Curator, November 1987 – January 1988, illustrated in color, page 31, catalog #37.