https://sapfm.org/ https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/shenandoah-valley-tall-case-clock-965 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/shenandoah-valley-tall-case-clock-965 This clock is an adaptation of a tall or long case clock that might have been made by John Martin in his shop in Winchester, Virginia in the last decade... ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:32:57 +0000 965 2018-03-27 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/5f/a3/8b/main-yochimclock-20180327-2087600737-3-1638032216.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-tall-case-clock-964 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-tall-case-clock-964 This Newport-style clock is an amalgamation of different elements of several, mostly in the 9 volumes of American Antiques of the Israel Sack collection. The clock on page 1702,... ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:29:33 +0000 964 2018-03-27 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/99/f3/c1/main-mcgrail-clock-20180327-1658646530-18-1638032216.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-clock-963 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-clock-963 This tall case clock was built as a reproduction of a clock built by John Goddard in Newport, RI, in 1760. This clock is featured several times in Sack's... ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:25:03 +0000 963 2018-03-27 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/02/36/88/main-clock-beach-20180327-1058783925-71-1638032216.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-tall-case-clock-960 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/clocks/newport-tall-case-clock-960 Primary material - Mahogany Secondary material - Chestnut and poplar Design: Original concept for base and waist from Plate 12 page 87 Master Craftsman of Newport by Moses. Bonnet,... ]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:11:38 +0000 960 2018-03-27 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/91/32/04/sec-54703-dsc01892second-20180327-1456689042-80-1638032216.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/john-townsend-bureau https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/john-townsend-bureau The John Townsend Bureau is located and on display at the Yale University Art Gallery. This one is dated 1785-1790. In 1983 Harden Furniture received permission to measure and... ]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2018 21:42:25 +0000 954 2018-10-01 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/f5/d6/78/img-5748-20181002-1256051460-13-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/charleston-chest-of-drawers-950 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/charleston-chest-of-drawers-950 This walnut chest of drawers is based on a drawing of "Dressing Drawers" in Sumuel A. Humphry's book on Thomas Elfe, although the proportions were changed to fit its... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:57:01 +0000 950 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/1d/82/12/pri-mmaleskicchest-20180326-1568867534-64-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/boston-bombe-chest-948 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/boston-bombe-chest-948 Based on a piece at the Rhode Island School of Design. Original design modified with the addition of an egg-and- dart molding to the base. ... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:48:03 +0000 948 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/6f/43/a2/main-jstallmanbombe-20180326-1976383047-51-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/double-chest-947 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/double-chest-947 This double chest is an interpretation of a chest made around 1750 by Thomas Elfe, a Charleston, SC cabinetmaker. Elfe was born in England, and received his training there.... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:43:07 +0000 947 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/2d/ee/43/main-ryoungelfechest-20180326-1161440886-31-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/oxbow-bureau-946 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/oxbow-bureau-946 Secondary wood: soft Maple. Based on an example from "Connecticut Valley Furniture, Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800". Probably Hampshire County, Massachusetts 1790-1800. ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:40:04 +0000 946 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/7a/81/91/main-dboeffoxbow-20180326-1149537550-83-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chest-of-drawers-945 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chest-of-drawers-945 This 18th century-style chest is made of Swietenia Mahagoni, from the damage caused by hurricane Rita. The hardware is from Ball & Ball. Certainly, there are many variants of... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:35:53 +0000 945 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/b9/3c/1a/main-mcgrail-chest-20180326-1706540773-71-1638029852.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-boston-serpentine-bombe-chest-944 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-boston-serpentine-bombe-chest-944 Mahogany with eastern white pine secondary; aniline dye, amber shellac,and wax. This is a reproduction of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts? Chippendale serpentine bombe... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:31:16 +0000 944 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/3c/1e/3d/main-leonardbombe-20180326-1336773075-91-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/bonnet-top-chest-on-chest-943 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/bonnet-top-chest-on-chest-943 This is a reproduction of a circa 1780 Chippendale cherry bonnet-top chest-on-chest owned by C.L. Prickett, an antiques dealer in Yardley, PA. The piece, item 4896, was on display... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:27:09 +0000 943 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/80/50/3d/main-saylorchestchest-20180326-1631416399-1-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/newport-chest-939 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/newport-chest-939 This piece was completed in 2011. The case is Honduras Mahogany and the drawer fronts are ribbon figured African mahogany, with poplar and pine as secondary woods. This piece... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:10:24 +0000 939 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/f3/cd/a6/main-stallmannewportchest-20180326-1135306674-2-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/serpentine-front-chest-936 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/serpentine-front-chest-936 Primary Wood: Cherry, replacing mahogany in the original Secondary Wood: Poplar Based upon the chest that appears in Albert Sack's, New Fine Points of Furniture, p. 95. Original is... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:29:22 +0000 936 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/ca/61/2b/main-benjaminserpchest-20180326-1389577222-88-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/newport-chest-on-chest-935 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/newport-chest-on-chest-935 This is a flat-face chest-on-chest of crotch walnut. I resawed the crotches and veneered them over quartered walnut stock for the drawer fronts. The secondary woods are poplar and... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:37:28 +0000 935 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/76/92/71/sec-mcgrail-newportconc-20180326-1015753251-17-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/massachusetts-chest-on-chest-934 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/massachusetts-chest-on-chest-934 I originally worked from the photograph on page 980 of Volume 4 of American Antiques of the Israel Sack collection. I also used a similar example in a 1988... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:32:26 +0000 934 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/29/98/5a/thi-mcgrail-c-on-c-20180326-1277839310-48-1638029851.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-serpentine-chest-933 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-serpentine-chest-933 This is a reproduction of an Eliphalet Chapin bureau, pictured in Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries. ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:24:45 +0000 933 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/89/f1/c3/main-kauffmanchest-20180326-1270960097-40-1638029850.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-chest-932 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/chippendale-chest-932 I made this Chippendale chest during a class in March 2008 with Jeff Headley and Steve Hamilton. It is finished with a coat of linseed oil and then shellac... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:15:52 +0000 932 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/d4/6f/0b/main-grandestaffchest-20180326-2098551379-89-1638029850.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/walnut-chest-on-chest-931 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/walnut-chest-on-chest-931 This chest on chest dresser was patterned after chests made by Chippendale and Townsend, but was customized to suit my client. The exterior of the chest is made from... ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:43:05 +0000 931 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/61/6b/76/main-fagnantchest-20180326-1024766978-39-1638029850.jpg https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/townsend-blockfront-926 https://sapfm.org/member-gallery-grouping/chests/townsend-blockfront-926 Townsend three-shell bureau from Plate #13 of Michael Moses' Master Craftsmen of Newport. ]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 08:44:47 +0000 926 2018-03-26 https://sapfm.org/media/reviews/photos/original/8a/e4/03/main-blockfrontchest-20180326-1937265581-100-1638029850.jpg