MASSACHUSETTS CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK FRONT CHEST-ON-CHEST
c. 1770-80, rich deep color; full bonnet top with urn and flame finials; top part with deeply carved shell flanked by two short drawers bove four graduated drawers with original pine tree brasses; blocked-front bottom part with four graduated drawers; on original bracket base; 89"h (incl. center finial); case 42"w; 22"d
This piece pictured in Wallace Nutting Furniture Treasury/Mostly of American Origin, MacMillan, plate 304. First published in 1928. Owner of chest identified as W.W. Smith, Providence, RI.
Finials appear to be original; some restoration to secondary wood of bonnet top.
Estimate: $8,000 - $10,000
Realized: $7,000 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 108 : MASSACHUSETTS CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY BLOCK FRONT CHEST-ON-CHEST
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