Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: November 15, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
Of urn form, one side ornamented with the applied presentation, "Heres To Andrew Wheeler/ Fill Him Up A Full Glass / And At The Same Time/ Don't Forget His True Love," above the names, "Arthur L. Wheeler, Alfred T. Baker, Richard M. Elliot, C. Hartman Kuhn, Robert G. Le Conte, Clarence A. Lewis, D. Pearson Pearce, Benjamin B. Reath, Alexander Van Rensellaer, Charles Wheeler, Herbert Wheeler S. Bowman Wheeler, and Walter S. Wheeler:" the verso with applied panel engraved with the opening musical measures of the bridal march from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, above the entwined initials "AW and JP," and a panoply of musical instruments.
Provenance
By descent in the Scott-Wheeler family.
Presented to Andrew Wheeler, Jr. (1866-1926) on the occasion of his marriage to Jennie Pearce (1876-1941), April 18, 1907 from friends, family and fellow Philadelphia philanthropists and music lovers.