Also known as a Schrank,
the piece had been owned by the same family since the
Eighteenth Century.
Virginia
Sale Yields Rare $75,000 Dutch Chest
MT. CRAWFORD, VA. - Green Valley Auction's July 12 sale featured
a Schrank (Dutch chest) owned by the Kline Family from Rockingham
County, Va. since the late Eighteenth Century. The chest featured
walnut with southern yellow pine secondary, double ogee molded
cornice and a case having two double raised panel
thumbnail-lipped doors hung on rattail hinges. The doors were
divided and flanked by narrow double recessed ogee molded panels,
quarter column corners, double raised panel ends, lower section
steps out slightly with heavy applied double molding at top,
three lower thumbnail-lipped drawers, heavy applied ogee molding
at base.
The interior had three shelves on the left side and one shelf
with hanging pegs below on right side; the back consisted of two
sections, each having four raised panels, closely resembling
house doors of the period. The Schrank measured some 86 inches
high by 72 inches wide at case, and 82 inches wide at cornice.
With the exception of changed locks and the loss of its original
ball-style feet, this piece was in a remarkable original state of
preservation. The piece included its original untouched dry
surface, remnants of original drawer hardware, and had some
insect damage to a board under the base. This extremely rare
Shenandoah Valley example has never passed out of the Kline
family and sold for $75,000
Selling for $5,100 was a Grayson County, Va. walnut pie safe with
poplar secondary; two doors having three punched heart and star
tins above a lower dirty dish panel; ends with identical
configuration; and turned front feet with rear feet being square
extensions of rear posts; old dry finish. The pie safe dated from
the first half of the Nineteenth Century, measured 55 (H) by
491/2 (W) by 181/2 inches (D); had an old patch to one end tin
and showed minor insect damage to the top and back.
An Aubusson Tapestry that sold for $6,500, featured a gold shell
and scroll border, was framed in a light blue secondary field, a
light rose main field with ornate central urn and cascading deep
red, blue and other color flowers, red and had blue parrots at
the bottom.
An old fabric label on the reverse written in period ink read
"Tapestry Panel 1" 80 x 1" 48 "Wernher." This late
Eighteenth/early Nineteenth Century, measured 71 by 53 inches.
And had some minor fading and fabric separation. Provenance
included Dorothy Lambert Mondell/Josephine Garland Lambert
Estate. The selling price was $6,500.
