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Doris Matthews - Owner Phone: (615) 354-0400
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Chancery Lane Antiques, which was founded in the fall of 1995, is the outgrowth of a lifetime interest in antique silver. Doris Matthews' mother was in "the business" back in the fifties. Her father started the silver collection at Cheekwood, a local museum. He was president of the English Speaking Union here. When owner Doris Matthews discovered her first pair of Matthew Boulton Old Sheffield salts in England in the late 1950s, a personal passion was born. A summer in London as the guest of a local silver dealer secured her budding interest in Georgian silver especially by Hester Bateman and Paul Storr as well as antique jewelry. Fostered further by the tutelage of her parents, Cornelia and Russell Speights, well-known Nashville collectors, the enthusiastic young Matthews added to her first piece during ensuing travels abroad and went on to minor in art history at Vanderbilt University.
Through the years, she nurtured this interest in antiquities by serving as a docent in local museums in cities where she lived, and at the same time she built and important collection in her own right. Upon returning to Nashville in 1995, Matthews found a growing interest in antiques and received numerous requests from individuals and dealers to select pieces for them during her travels. In response to this need for expert professional assistance in choosing unusual heirlooms for important gifts and personal collectors, Matthews decided to transform her long-standing avocation into a vocation. [more information] |
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