Lot 135
A Very Rare American Gothic Carved Mahogany Mixing Cabinet, early 19th c., signed "H. Noblet Wilmington, Dl", Hamilton Noblet (Wilmington, Delaware), the original rectangular marble top over an ogee-molded frieze drawer, arched paneled cupboard door, stepped ripple molded plinth, height 38 in., width 36 in., depth 18 in. Note: A member of a family of noted Quaker cabinetmakers, Hamilton Noblit (sic Noblet) is listed with a shop on Market Street between 8th and 9th streets in the 1845 Wilmington City Directory and in the New Castle County Indenture Books of 1836-1853 Noblit's father, Dell Noblit (or Noblett, as spelled in early directories), was born in 1777 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania and worked in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and New York before settling in Wilmington before 1810 In 1815, the elder Noblit had a workshop at 6th and Market Streets which was then occupied in 1845 by brother John Noblit, two blocks from Hamilton Noblit's shop and among a concentration of cabinet shops on lower M rket and Shipley Streets in Wilmington. Reference: Dorman. Delaware Cabinetmakers and Allied Artisans 1655-1855, pp.63-66; Bjerkoe. The Cabinetmakers of America, p 164; Hancock. "Furniture Craftsmen in Delaware Records", Winterthur Portfolio (January 1974) p. 192.
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