Description
Washstand
Lot 50: Washstand
$175,000.00
Lot 50: Washstand
$175,000.00
SOLD: $175,000 (without buyer's premium)
Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000
Pine, ochre stain, poplar drawer bottoms, hardwood pulls, pencil signed on underside of bottom drawer “Made by James V. Calver, April 1862” (born 1839; joined New Lebanon Shakers 1850 – left 1871), New Lebanon, NY, 40 1/4” h, 27 5/8” w, 18 1/2” d.
Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 29 – August 31,1986. “The Shakers – An Exhibition Concerning Their Furniture, Artifacts and Religion”, The Women’s Auxiliary of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Hartford, CT, November
7-11, 1975, catalog #41.
Illustrated: Shaker Design, June Sprigg, catalog #40, p. 87.
