Amelia Jeffers — The Chillingworth Auction
October 18, 19, 20, 2018
Onsite at the historic homestead and farm at
Peter Chillingworth Antiques
1416 Daniels Run Rd
Scenery Hill, PA 15360
PREVIEW:
October 18, 8a-7p | October 19, 8a-9p | October 20, 8-10a
Preview party & champagne toast: October 19, 7pm

1300+ lots | Onsite – Unreserved |
Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer – 740.815-7016 | With Frio, Stack & Associates – 304.233.3168
TheChillingworthAuction.com
AUCTION:
October 18, 10am: Contents of Cabinetmaker’s Workshop, Historic Barn & Lumber
October 19, 10am: Session 1: Personal collection and shop inventory
October 20, 10am: Session 2, Personal collection and important inventory
TERMS:
10% Buyer’s Premium Thursday & Friday, 15% Buyer’s Premium Saturday
3% fee for credit card
Online bidding at www.invaluable.com and www.auctionzip.com
The 57-Year Personal Collection and Inventory of Peter Chillingworth and his wife, Kathryn (Cappy),
of Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania
Featuring a wonderful assemblage of Americana with an enthusiasm for furniture and decorative arts from the Queen Anne, Chippendale, and Federal periods and an emphasis on important objects from Western Pennsylvania region.
Over 1300 lots – too many items to list here:
Furniture highlights: fine vine-inlaid drop front desk in untouched condition (ex-Charles Momchilov); Scenery Hill, PA walnut corner cupboard with St. Andrew’s Cross on lower door; group of american tall case clocks including rare Alexander Cook (Canonsburg, PA) in walnut with ebonized moldings, Thomas Hutchinson inlaid cherry, and heavily inlaid walut Thomas Gorgas marked Mt Pleasant (Westmoreland County), plus others; Philadelphia Queen Anne diminutive lowboy; important Philadelphia Queen Anne shell-carved side chair with trifed feet in untouched condition; rare Maryland or northeastern Virginia Chippendale shell-carved side chair with ball and claw feet; several mid-18th Century low back windsors, all Philadelphia-area; good blanket chests including early decorated examples and a walnut with sulphur-inlay from Lancaster dated 1799 with drawers and remnants of a bright and colorful decorated fraktur pasted on the underside of the lid; a selection of birdcage tea tables and candle stands including several with dish tops; Chippendale walnut stepback cupboard in old finish; plus an assortment of chests, drop leaf tables, stands, chairs, benches, and more.
Smalls to include extensive collection of fine and important 16th 17th and 18th C brass candlesticks; pottery and porcelain including delft, feather (shell) edge, canary, transferware (including Pittsburgh views among many others); large group of Liverpool pitchers including american scenes with eagles, masonic, George Washington, etc.; iron including western Pennsylvania utensils (Westmoreland or Somerset County) with incised decoration; coin silver with a focus on southwestern Pennsylvania early 19th C makers; extensive early blown and cut glass collection focusing on western Pennsylvania, with New Geneva-type glass selection predominantly in aqua of pitchers, tumblers, pans, bowls, flasks, bottles, flips, vases; textiles and more.
Artwork featuring: a collection of western Pennsylvania art highlighted by oil on canvas landscapes by George Hetzel and W.C. Wall; a stunning Malcolm Parcell portrait “The Reader” (Exhibited in The Carnegie International in 1934); Emil Blott (Beaver County); Dorothy Davids; Aaron Gorson; A. Bryan Wall; John Donaghy; Milan Petrovits; Xanthus Smith; David Hannah; Clifford Adams Bayard; John W. Flender; Vincent Nesbert; G. Hunter; Frank Melega; and more. 18th, 19th, and 20th C oils on canvas, watercolors, and paintings on board. Folk art includes two by Jacob Maentel. Edwin Darch Lewis (EP); J. W. Duckworth; Robert M. Tudor (EP); Walter E. Baum (EP); Leslie Cope (OH)
Large collection of 19th and early 20th Century hand tools to include period manufactured treadle lathe, early molding planes, work benches. Period lumber.