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Appraisal: A West Indies Carved Mahogany Buffet th c the single

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A West Indies Carved Mahogany Buffet 19th c. the single board top with rounded corners and molded edge above two drawers and two doors with flush panels fiche hinges one original escutcheon and the original brass lock interior of two shelves the back constructed with large mahogany panel shaped apron with twin lobe return on cabriole legs pegged and tenoned construction throughout height 53 3/4 in. width 61 1/8 in. depth 23 1/2 in. Note: As scholar Jack Holden observes the use of flush panels on the doors of case pieces such as the example here is indicative of cabinet-making traditions in Saint-Malo France and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) that were transmitted by Haitian émigrés at the turn of the 19th century to different locations in North America including southern Louisiana and Philadelphia. Interestingly the brass box lock and two-lobe return on this buffet are also seen on known Louisiana case pieces notably a mahogany and cypress armoire from Bocage Plantation sold by Neal Auction Company as lot 122 on December 8 2007 now privately held. A two-lobe return also appears on a West Indies mahogany armoire descended in the de la Vergne family of Louisiana and now in the Stromeyer collection. The collection of Philadelphia philanthropist Stephen Girard (1750-1831) includes a mahogany buffet with hinges escutcheons and door panels related to those seen here and was likely made by Saint-Dominguan immigrant cabinet makers Jean-Baptiste Laurent and Charles Domballe. Reference: Holden. "Echoes of an Island Past: Flush Panel Armoires in Saint-Domingue and Louisiana " Southern Quarterly (Spring 2007) p. 123. Schwartz. The Stephen Girard Collection fig. 35.

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