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A Tunbridge Ware Macassar Ebony and Marquetry Footed Table Casket
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$1,000
Timed Auction
Palm Beach Treasures: Online
Description
A Tunbridge Ware Macassar Ebony and Marquetry Footed Table Casket
19th Century
with a removable velvet-lined tray, to decorated interior.
Height overall 16 x width 12 3/4 x depth 8 inches.
Property from the Collection of William L. Bernhard and Catherine Cahill, Southampton, New York
Condition
The foot box with hinged cover is in overall good condition. There are a few scattered surface cracks to the veneer consistent with age and normal, gentle use. Lacking key.The interior tray, possibly associated, has a 1 inch loss to the inlaid banding at the rim.
Provenance
Note:The first sequence of lots in this auction come from the Southampton, New York home of the collectors Catherine Cahill, who is now deceased, and William L. Bernhard, who continues to live in their Park Avenue home in Manhattan. Lifelong New Yorkers, they passed the summers in Southampton and Washington, Connecticut, and the winters in Palm Beach, where Ms. Cahill decorated their retreat on Major Alley Way with the noted interior designer, Keith Irvine of Irvine and Fleming. Ms. Cahill was an animal rights activist, and a daughter of John T. Cahill, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a named partner in the international law firm, Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Mr. Bernhard is a philanthropist and a descendant of the Lehman family of investment banking fame. He has served on many Boards of Directors, including the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Film at Lincoln Center and the Winston Churchill Foundation.
Quantity
1