SKINNER American Furniture & Decorative Arts

270, with reverse view
267.
Two Small Green-painted Lapped-seam Pantry Boxes and a
Nantucket Basket, America, late 19th/early 20th century, round and
oval pantry boxes, and a small round Nantucket basket with turned
hardwood base, (losses to lashing on rim of basket), ht. 2 5/8-3, dia. 4
7/8-6 1/4 in.
$300-500
268.
Mustard-painted Turned Wooden Mortar with a Porcelain and
Wood Pestle, America, 19th century, (minor chip to pestle), mortar ht.
6 5/8, pestle lg. 9 3/4 in.
$300-500
269.
Red-painted Pine Knife Box, probably New England, early 19th
century, canted sides on rectangular box with shaped divider with cutout
handle, (paint wear), ht. 8 1/4, wd. 7 1/4, lg. 15 in.
$300-500
270.
Asahel Lynde Powers (American, 1813-1843)
Portrait of a Boy Studying Geometry. Signed and dated on the
reverse “A.L. Powers Painted Oct : 1839,” with three small sketches of
two heads in profile and a rose also appearing on the reverse. Oil on
canvas, 30 x 25 in., in a later frame. Condition: Good, small old tear
u.r., minor retouch to hair.
Literature: This portrait is illustrated in Antiques Magazine, November,
1973, in an article titled “Asahel Powers, painter of Vermont faces,” by
Nina Fletcher Little, p. 850; written in accordance with the exhibition
of Powers’s work at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection in
Williamsburg, Virginia, which took place in late 1973.
Note: Asahel Powers was born on February 28, 1813, in Springfield,
Vermont, and began his career as a portrait artist by the time he turned
18. His early works were done on wood panels, later changing to
canvas as he traveled farther west. In his early works he used heavy
gray shadowing, strong outlines, and boldly painted clothing with
detailed accessories. He left New York some time after 1841 to join
his parents who settled in Olney, Illinois, and died there on August 23,
1843.
$8,000-12,000
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