A Wrought Iron-Bound and Painted Conestoga Wagon Box, Pennsylvania, Circa 1800

Retaining blue painted surface, with tulip-form strap hinges.

H: 18 in. W: 13 in. D: 8 in. (excluding exterior iron mounts)

The Collection of Dr. Richard J. and Eva Wattenmaker, Pennsylvania

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Christie's East, New York, Property From The Violette de Mazia Collection, Merion, Pennsylvania, sale of April 28, 1989.

Note:

Miss de Mazia (French-American, 1896-1988) began working with Dr. Alfred C. Barnes and the Barnes Foundation in 1926. She co-authored several books with Barnes and was extremely influential in the development of the Foundation's educational philosophy. She served as a Trustee from 1935 to 1966 and became Director of Education in 1951 upon the death of Barnes. De Mazia taught at the Barnes Foundation until 1987.

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Raphaël Chatroux is the Head of Department for Freeman's Impressionist & Modern Art.

Chatroux joined Freeman’s in 2016 as a Fine Art department intern. Later that year, he was the Samuel M. Freeman II Fellowship recipient and was promoted to cataloguer. Since his arrival, he has developed an expertise for a wide range of American and European art. He worked closely with Chairman Alasdair Nichol on the successful sales of The Collections of Heidi Bigham Stott in 2020 and The Peltz Collection of Pennsylvania Impressionists in 2021. Chatroux is associated with recent world records obtained for artists Cecilia Beaux, Emma Fordyce McRae, and Bo Bartlett. He was also instrumental in the acquisition of a Berthe Morisot oil painting by the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. As a native of France, Chatroux has worked in various art centers in Paris including Hôtel Drouot, where he oversaw auctions of fine wine and good spirits and the Palace of Versailles, where he conceived and curated several bilingual audio-guide tours. Chatroux graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University with a degree in art history; he also holds a master’s degree in art law.

Lynda Cain

VP, Head of Department, American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

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Lynda Cain serves as a Vice President of Freeman's and is the Head of Department for American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts.
She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

For the Love of Barnes: The Collection of Dr. Richard J. Wattenmaker

A Wrought Iron-Bound and Painted Conestoga Wagon Box, Pennsylvania, Circa 1800

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