# Philip Moulthrop artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/philip-moulthrop/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:42:33.834Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Woodturning

## About Philip Moulthrop

Philip Moulthrop is an American artist and woodturner born in 1947. He belongs to the Moulthrop family, a three-generation American woodturning tradition that began with Ed Moulthrop. Collectors may encounter Philip Moulthrop’s name in museum, library, and auction cataloging connected with modern turned-wood work. His identity is represented by records in Wikidata, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and ISNI, which help distinguish him from other artists and from other members of the Moulthrop family. The available source material establishes his basic identity and family context but does not document particular forms, wood species, techniques, commissions, exhibitions, or individual works. Those details should therefore be confirmed from object-specific documentation before they are used in attribution or appraisal.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Philip Moulthrop with the Moulthrop family’s American woodturning tradition. Turned-wood works are therefore the supported general category for auction and appraisal searches. The source pack does not establish particular vessel forms, wood species, decorative techniques, editions, subjects, or named series, so those characteristics should be described from the object itself and verified against reliable catalog records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Philip Moulthrop should begin by confirming which member of the three-generation Moulthrop family made it. Object-specific evidence and comparable auction records cataloged under the exact artist are important because the present source pack does not provide signatures, dimensions, wood species, provenance, condition reports, or individual sale results. Where reliable auction records are available, sale date, realized price, catalog attribution, and similarity to the object being appraised can provide useful context. The available evidence does not support a price forecast, scarcity claim, or market-trend conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Thin or inaccessible source evidence is identified rather than supplemented with unsupported claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110111738
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulthrop_family
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/233158865/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012041081
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000366223947
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/philip-moulthrop/