The lifetime collection of John and Marie Vander Sande of Newbury, MA, features fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop. Highlights include works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich. Boston furniture includes a Japanned Queen Anne high chest. Decorative arts include 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms from 1729.
